annielaurie's Journal: Hate Mail

No idea why I am feeling so down-hearted about this, but I've finally been the recipient of my first genuine white-supremacist spam, replete with graphical hate-symbols.

What to do about this spam? No idea. I have forwarded it, with headers, to my website host, to the ISP of the forged signature (Earthlink) and to the ISP of the actual mail server (Comcast, with some indication it's in Tennessee...).

I want to do more. I'm angry to have this beautiful new day soiled just as it's beginning. I want to find whoever it is and humiliate them and put a stop to them. I think I really want some kind of revenge.

It has always occurred to me that the spammers' First Amendment rights stop where my right not to communicate with them begins. I still believe that. Probably nothing to do, but if I can find a way to stop them, I'm planning to do it.

The only way that evil can triumph is for good men to do nothing. (Women, too...)