[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

[Dennis During]

Is stalking in the real world a crime in itself?  The making of
threats of bodily harm certainly is a crime. Stalking behavior would
certainly make such a threat seem more real, but is stalking without
an explicit threat a crime?

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>> Huib Laurens wrote:
>>> But i don't see the difference between wikistalking en cyberstalking.
>>>
>>>
>> I view it as a subset, i.e. wikistalking is cyberstalking on a site that
>> happens to be a wiki.
>>
> But then what is cyberstalking?  I've seen it applied to as little as
> paying attention to the edits a particular editor makes.  Is it
> wikistalking to gather evidence for an arbitration request?  The term
> is quite obviously useless if it is.
>
> The only definition of cyberstalking that I think makes sense is a
> subset of stalking.  In fact, the Wikipedia article currently uses
> that definition in the first sentence: "Cyberstalking is the use of
> the Internet or other electronic means to stalk someone."
>
> Of course, 99 times out of 100 I bet someone who uses the term
> "wikistalking" isn't talking about actual stalking.
>
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Dennis C. During