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To: jlallen who wrote (12324)	5/7/2002 12:26:26 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21057

I don't think you can cyber-stalk an anonymous alias. You are the lawyer, JLA, but I think the cyber-stalking laws are intended to apply to stalking real people. We had a case here where a local man stalked his former girlfriend by setting up a website where he identified her by name and address, and even posted nude pictures of her. He was tried, convicted, and given a relatively light punishment (no jail time). So far as we know, no one here has a clue who anyone else is in real life ... and if they do, it is because the person in question volunteered the information. I think it would be a huge stretch to argue that you could ever be held legally responsible for causing emotional damage by your posting interactions with anyone on an anonymous chat line. If the bar were that low, we wouldn't have enough courts to handle the volume. That said, I don't understand why CH doesn't give up on the Poet thing, leave her be, and get on with his life.

To: jlallen who wrote (12324)	5/7/2002 12:32:51 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

most SIers know you can't have multiple accounts and Poet is a very savvy poster it was a prank and I know many people opened another account when SI offered the freebee and I'm sure they still have them sometimes you calculate the risk and break the rules E and I did all the time over the Hunger Site - we both agreed in private if we were caught SI had every right to slap our hands - actually it was fun trying to 'dodge' the rules, but we knew if we were found out we would have a consequence the point is I think 15 days is too harsh and I think it is ironic some TOU are enforced while others are not too? this is a privately owned site with their own rules/TOU - if you don't like the rules don't join - if you can't follow the rules leave, don't threaten law suits I'm surprised SI is foggy on this issue, it is setting up a poor precedent and as you said opening SI up to certain liabilities