The Famous Brett Wat's Journal: On the use of this journal

Hi. I'm The Famous Brett Watson, not "The Famous Brett Wat". The lack of a "son" on the end of my nick is a product of The Great Username Truncation, which famously left "Ungrounded Lightning Rod" without a "Rod", and me without a "son". No doubt there were other casualties.

Anyhow, enough of the introductions. I'm going to use this journal to document the threats I've received from an organised group of extortionists who engage in what might fairly be called "organised spam terrorism". The phrase "spam terrorism" has been used before, mostly to describe uses of spamming which are aimed at causing distress to a particular target, as opposed to causing (step 3) "profit!" for the spammer. I'm using "organised spam terrorism" to take it to the next level, where the acts of terrorism are carefully planned and premeditated, and probably carried out by several individuals acting in concert.

I'm documenting this because, although I find it hard to believe that I'm the first person so suffer such a fate, I can find no evidence of this happening elsewhere. Hopefully the web-spiders will do their thing and make this information easier to find for the next person.

I'm doing it now because I have absolutely no intention of dealing with these terrorists. If they want to negotiate anything, they can call me on the telephone number I list for myself on my personal home page. Unlike these cowards, I do not hide behind a thick blanket of anonymity. If they want to negotiate, they can do so in a two-way medium.

But they don't want to negotiate. They have writ their code of conduct in stone, in splendid isolation from any society (other than their own) and its norms, and intend to dole out the consequences globally. Or, in the vernacular, they're a bunch of spectacularly arrogant fucks.

So, in a couple of hours I expect my meagre Internet link to be crapflooded, unless they're really, really incompetent. I'm a sitting duck: my services are hosted in my own home at the end of a 64/256K DSL link. One drunk monkey with a cable modem could ruin my day, let alone a gaggle of script-kiddies.

I'll post the information in this journal in the order in which it happened. I intend to leave comments enabled unless there is a special reason not to (which seems unlikely).

Keywords: organised spam terrorism, organised spam terrorists, extortionists, spammers.