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Re: Offensive Message From: D.G. Huffman (perinatl@slip.net) Thu Mar 7 16:48:19 1996 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Herbert C. Hodes, M.D : "Re: how to read the "list"" Previous message: ELIZABETH@ch1.ch.pdx.edu: "Re: For Your Information" I earlier posted a message on this mailing list as follows: At 11:59 AM 3/6/96 -0600, you wrote: >Earlier this week, I posted a message of advice to the man who was >"seeking friendship for his daughter." Today, I got back a disturbing >message, supposedly a reply to what I had written. It went something like >this-- > >REPLY: I will get you pregnant if you want- I am 21 and quite enjoy >helping young ladies such as yourself. > >I found the message disgusting and a little bit offensive. Nothing I had >written in my message merits a reply such as that. His name is Neil >Andrew Smith. If anyone knows who is in charge of this list, could you >do me a favor and tell me how I could reach them? I don't think Neil >needs to be on this list if he is going to use it to harass unsuspecting >women. > >Thank You > >Jennifer Connolly >jaconnol@indiana.edu > Apparently somehow the part that I had intended to add to the abpve message inadvertantly got left off. I am sorry. I will try to reporduce it, in substance, below: TO: Jennifer Connolly If you have kept a copy of the e-mail message on your computer, there may be information in the header that will help identify the source of the original message. This depends, in part, upon how much of the header information your e-mail program saves. (In EUODRA, for example, you can save all of the header information if you wish to exercise that option. But if you did not save all the header information initially at the time of receipt of the message, you CANNOT go back and retrieve it AFTER the message has been received.) Or the listserve (Dr. Klein) might have that header information on his computer, except that it appears the message went directly to you rather than going through Dr. Klein's computer. If the sender of the message is not very sophisticated, you can probably identify who he/(?she?) is without much difficulty. If he is more sophisticated, it can be very difficult to track down the sender. He might even make it seem as if the posting came from somebody else, an innocent third party. It might be all but impossible to track down the sender if the message went through an annoymous remailer. Remember, Neil Andrew Smith may be a fictious persona, it may be a real person but not the person who actually sent the note, or it may be the real name of the person who sent the offensive message. If nothing else, you can contact the sysop (system operator) at the address of the sender and the sysop might investigate. This all might be a waste of time, but it is quite possible that your effort might make the sender think twice the next time before sending a similar message to you or somebody else in the future. It may just be that the best thing to do is to try to forget or ignore having receiving the message. Again, I am sorry that the second part of this message got left off when I sent it and I am sorry you received the original message in the first place. Dean Huffman perinatl@slip.net Next message: Herbert C. Hodes, M.D : "Re: how to read the "list"" Previous message: ELIZABETH@ch1.ch.pdx.edu: "Re: For Your Information"

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