From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of TurquoiseB
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Barry, nothing here for you anymore. Be gone
I mean, Rick didn't throw off one guy even after
he mounted a cyberattack on FFL by posting
porn to it and then writing to the Yahoo admin-
istrators complaining about the porn *he* had
posted, in an attempt to get the forum taken down.
Just for the record, we often give spammers the boot (people promoting MLM
schemes, posting religious rants without participating in the conversation,
etc.), and if we can't discern the motives of someone signing up, we start
them out on moderated status. I've booted two legitimate FFL members: Kirk
Bernhardt, because I was in a rare pissy mood one day years ago, and he kept
posting fabricated Movement press releases made to look real. I don't know
what my problem was, as these days I'd probably get a good laugh out of
that. He resubscribed within minutes under a different name. The other guy
was the one you refer to. If I remember correctly, I did boot him for making
racist comments. He then slipped in under a pseudonym, posted the porn, and
reported it to Yahoo. Yahoo then switched our status to "Adult" or whatever
they call it, which was a problem, because you could no longer find FFL by
searching in Yahoo Groups, folks couldn't access the site on public library
computers, etc. One of our members (a lawyer) contacted Yahoo and
straightened that out. I have since met the porn poster in person, we've
become friends, and he has rejoined under a different name.
