Joyce, my apologies if you get this twice, but you did say you'd been deleting digests, and I wanted to be sure you had a chance to see this.
JEB31538@cs.com wrote:
Annie Wortham wrote:
Over the last few weeks, I have suddenly begun receiving massive amounts of pornographic emails, not just on my main account, but on every single account where I have website space. These accounts are never used for email and I have NEVER, in years on the internet, received spam at any of those addresses. I also have received a pornographic message in my guest book at my main website for the first time ever.
Yesterday, while attempting to find the source of this Internet Vandalism,
I
discovered a newsgroup post that called for an "attack" on my website.
Please read the entire newsgroup thread at:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=f...,
8& seekm=9d4emm%249k1%241%40slb7.atl.mindspring.net#p
If you will click on the website link of the person posting the disturbing messages, I think many of you will be saddened and surprised to find a rather
prolific
member of this Lyst as the perpetrator. I don't know what to make of this behavior. I'm still coming to terms with it. Until it happened, I wouldn't have expected a fan to do this to another fan.
Julia Jones wrote:
This format will make it easier to use:
I used Julia Jone's url. When you use it, be careful to delete the space that the computer puts in at the line break.
I personally have no use for this Lysator person ever since she attacked me last year for telling people to buy ZENITH and support B7 fandom. She and some others (and I have no use for them either) accused me of using a guilt trip on people.
Excuse me, but this is a mistake.
(1) I'm the person who used the term 'guilt trip' in the Zenith thread. I didn't do it to hurt you, Joyce, but to let you know - after the topic was already being discussed - why one particular thing you wrote might be construed as hurtful by others. I am baffled why letting you know that _I_ was hurt by something _you_ said should be considered an attack on you - I guess I'm just stupid for thinking you might want to avoid hurting people.
(2) I completely abhor the attack on Annie, and am not involved in it. The person who has launched this attack has referenced a post by Leah, replying to me - I have no control over what posts are pointed to in the archive. This is not my doing, and I'm hurt by my identity and position being misrepresented in this way (by the attacker, not by you, Joyce; I assume you are making an honest mistake here).
(3) I'm genuinely sorry that I haven't always been able to express myself in ways you find acceptable; however, that works both ways. Sometimes it seems impossible to communicate one's ideas in ways that all Lystians will find both comprehensible and kind - I do try, but we all have different ideas of what that _is_. I have appreciated your contribution to the Lyst, and I hope it settles down very soon to something you can be comfortable with.
My apologies to other Lystians for this use of bandwidth, but I wanted to correct any false impression that I am collaborating in this unprincipled and deplorable attack on Annie.
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