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Jeßus[_53_]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:49:55 -0400, wrote:

>On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 20:07:54 -0000 (UTC), Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On 3/2/2016 05:49 Cheri wrote:
>>>> Who in their right mind would be afraid of someone on the Internet?
>>>> What a silly statement. LOL
>>>
>>> Really? It happens all the time.
>>
>>LOL, to me nothing is funnier than the "meet and beat" threats in newsgroups. If
>>someone is actually afraid of that, well.....
>
>Maybe not always funny. Back about 1988 I used to post quite
>innocently with my real name and real e-addy. Next thing was a
>stalker, the emails were horrible. I was living alone in a large
>house, isolated, on the coast. It did scare me.

Similar happened to a woman posting to a particular Australian
newsgroup back in the early 2000s. She was stalked and harassed by a
guy who had visited her home, he described her property in detail
(this was before google earth or street view) so it wasn't just talk.

He certainly had issues, supposedly a big tough guy who liked to
terrify a woman in her sixties... or at least he tried to. He also
tried to stalk and find me, because at that point I turned on him.

Several other people during that decade also got the same treatment.
In fact, the guy in question used to be a regular here on RFC.

>Some of the others on the group managed to track him down and find out
>who he was, I was reassured he didn't have a vehicle and couldn't
>drive but also later on I gathered he had a visit to put him off
>Just the same it was a very nasty feeling.
>
>I changed ISP and changed name to LB and never altered back.
>
>So you never know until it happens.