From: "Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net

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I haven't heard of any Mark Chapman-style stalking of the B7 actors :),

but

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I have heard of a few cases of stalking which the actors found

distressing

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if nothing else,

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WHile I agree that it certainly is unmannerly to show people things they will find distressing, you really can't compare giving someone a disagreeable experience of this type with placing him in fear that he or his family will be physically harmed.

Yeah, but the question was about stalking, which, if I recall the definition correctly, covers all sorts of harrassment, not just the sort involving actual physical threat. My sister was technically stalked a couple of years ago-- it was a fellow-student at her university who developed a crush on her and began following her around as a result. He didn't mean her any harm--and she came out of the experience more cynically amused than hurt--but that's still stalking, even if he wasn't actually ringing her up and threatening her. And the dirty-pictures thing is more distressing than what happened to my sister.

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