2.9 I got some really nasty, crude, rude, or threatening E-Mail. What do I do?
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This article is from the Internet Personals: Advice for Gay Men FAQ, by Fred Young nssf@greatwildwest.net and Dean Esmay esmay@syndicomm.com with numerous contributions by others.
2.9 I got some really nasty, crude, rude, or threatening E-Mail. What do I do?
DNFTEC! DNFTEC! DNFTEC!
Some pathetic Energy Creatures don't even have the balls to start
fights in public, so they just do it in e-mail. They may say rude,
hurtful, or disgusting things just to get your goat. Typical
comments might be sexual, bigoted or simply rude and hateful.
Ignore all of these. All they're designed to do is get you upset
and make you waste time and energy responding.
Mind you, if you receive legitimate-sounding threats from someone
who you think may actually be able to carry them out, contact your
system administrator. Another good thing to do would be to send a
copy of the threat to "postmaster" at the domain name of the
person who sent you the e-mail (so if you get a letter from
"jerkface@someplace.com", you send e-mail to
"postmaster@someplace.com"). Another good contact would be the
police; threatening people is illegal in many places, and the
police might be able to help. Contact any or all of the above and
just say, "I've received some threatening e-mail, which I can
provide you with a copy of. Please help me figure out what to do."
Do this immediately.
Otherwise, simply ignore any rude, crude, or harassing mail you
get. Responding merely feeds the Energy Creature and makes it
grow stronger.
Remember this: anyone, male or female, can get mail from Energy
Creatures. Really. It's almost certainly nothing special about
you, and no piece of e-mail from someone you've never met and who
has no chance of ever meeting you is worth spending even one
second of your time on. Throw it in the trash and move on.
Keep in mind that your goal here is to meet new people, not feed
energy creatures.
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