starchild
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ROADRUNNER-2-MIDSOUTH
I've been writing on a discussion board where someone is kind of a bully/troublemaker. He doesn't come out and do/say anything the host of the board could report him for, but insinuates he lives near to where the host lives (in the country) and sends her (and others) emails if he doesn't like what they write. Claims they are writing lies about him, etc.
Kind of an unstable person. I put his IP number in a search and it comes back to RR, and an address in VA. He isn't doing anything outright enough to report him (and we feel this would only add fuel to the fire, and trying to ignore him is the best bet).
I know someone (not involved in this) who lives in FL who has RR for an IP. But, does it go all over the country, like AOL, Earthlink, etc? Or is it just a specific area?
Where this says "miidsouth" I was thinking maybe the person who has it lives in that part of the country?
It would be nice if we could pinpoint just what part of the country the person lives in, so those who are being intimitated by him might feel a bit easier.
I remember when I first came online people would say "be careful there are a lot of nuts on the internet".I didn't think I'd be going anywhere "nuts" would be (LOL) But, I'm starting to see what they meant.
People seem to feel safer to express other sides of them online that they might not around people in their offline life.
And, who knows who is "all talk" and who isn't.
When I first moved to VT in 1997 there was a big story about a young boy in the state who had bee sent a mail bomb (which blew up, seriously injuring him, killing his mother (who brought in the package) and destroying their home) a man in OH had sent it, after finding out the boy wasn't gay, as he thought he was.
He sent the bomb via UPS and was caught from the records.
Anyway, it's just one of those "just wondering" things... if RR is like some of the big ISPs there's probably no way to pinpoint what part of the country the user is in.
And just keeping out of the way seems to be the best bet.
~ Carrie
I've been writing on a discussion board where someone is kind of a bully/troublemaker. He doesn't come out and do/say anything the host of the board could report him for, but insinuates he lives near to where the host lives (in the country) and sends her (and others) emails if he doesn't like what they write. Claims they are writing lies about him, etc.
Kind of an unstable person. I put his IP number in a search and it comes back to RR, and an address in VA. He isn't doing anything outright enough to report him (and we feel this would only add fuel to the fire, and trying to ignore him is the best bet).
I know someone (not involved in this) who lives in FL who has RR for an IP. But, does it go all over the country, like AOL, Earthlink, etc? Or is it just a specific area?
Where this says "miidsouth" I was thinking maybe the person who has it lives in that part of the country?
It would be nice if we could pinpoint just what part of the country the person lives in, so those who are being intimitated by him might feel a bit easier.
I remember when I first came online people would say "be careful there are a lot of nuts on the internet".I didn't think I'd be going anywhere "nuts" would be (LOL) But, I'm starting to see what they meant.
People seem to feel safer to express other sides of them online that they might not around people in their offline life.
And, who knows who is "all talk" and who isn't.
When I first moved to VT in 1997 there was a big story about a young boy in the state who had bee sent a mail bomb (which blew up, seriously injuring him, killing his mother (who brought in the package) and destroying their home) a man in OH had sent it, after finding out the boy wasn't gay, as he thought he was.
He sent the bomb via UPS and was caught from the records.
Anyway, it's just one of those "just wondering" things... if RR is like some of the big ISPs there's probably no way to pinpoint what part of the country the user is in.
And just keeping out of the way seems to be the best bet.
~ Carrie