[Cialug] OT: forum harassment

[David Champion]

Tony Bibbs wrote:
> I run a lowly hunting and fishing website that has been around for 
> nearly 6 years.  I've finally run into a situation where I had to ban a 
> guy by IP for being an idiot (racist comments) and now he's simply 
> hopping from PC to PC finding new IP's, creating new accounts and posting.
> 
> This all materialized today, but my plan is to simply give this a few 
> days to see if it dies down.  But in an effort of planning, are there 
> any viable legal actions one can take?  I know who the guys is, just 
> don't have anything I can really do.  My hunch is he will grow tired of 
> it all, but what are my options if he doesn't?
> 
> --Tony

(IANAL disclamer etc...)

I would guess that if you had a lawyer send him a Cease and Desist 
letter, it would probably scare him enough to knock it off.

Depending on what kind of comments he's making, he could be breaking 
various hate-crime laws, or if he's making threats he could be in 
trouble for that too.

-dc