Charles et al, I care because the email that I received was just verbal garbage. I believe it was a threat. I ask that forwarded it to Michael Bowers and I plan to chat with Yahoo. I work in Silicon Valley and if necessary I will walk over to Yahoo and discuss this person's account and how he is using it to harress people. Of great concern to most people is the question: do you confront this behavior worried that it will ramp up to something worse or should you let it go hoping to defuse the situation. There probably isn't a day that goes by that we don't have the occasion to deal with behavior that bullies, harrasses or is violent to us. Groundrules either formal and stated or informal and accepted govern us and when people trample on those groundrules all of us are affected as a group or a community. I believe that Roy Stiel is over the boundaries of this list and most email ISPs and that Doug has a point that he could come back as Little Red Riding Hood or Darth Vader or a turnip. But of course if he comes back as a goundhawg, we know how best to handle or deal with that! _____________ Constance Allen aka Fig Newton (Rumpole's Private Detective) Livermore, California mailto:callen@sirius.com _____________