Late last night I received an email addressed to the forum admin, full of threats, and mentioning a restraining order. It included this charming sentence:
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You have all had plenty of time and warnings to get your members into line so I am now left with no other avenues and always remember your Forum is a PUBLIC Forum and hence you could be in beach of many more Laws.[/quote]
I've had a lot of issues in the past with the sender, and have long-since directly his countless abusive emails to the trash, but a quick look through the trash found nine emails yesterday, all offering different degrees of threats and abuse. One of them maintained that a restraining order had been granted against me? and our members?? I'm not too sure of this, as I suspect that this is a scare tactic, and it's not the first time that people have used forged documents to make their point. I will make a copy of the 'restraining order' available to anyone who is concerned about the consequences.
So for the time being a need to warn members that mentioning any of these people listed in the restraining order -- Ian Thatcher, Tracey Thatcher, James Harris, any combination of these, or referring to them in any way which may identify them, is strictly prohibited on this forum. This includes anything such as Th*****r, and unfortunately prevents me from using my newly invented term 'harrisment'. Any breach will result in a suspension, and repeated breaches will mean a life-time ban.
I need to make it clear that I do not give any validity to the restraining order, this is a measure to put this matter to rest once and for all. It applies to all parties -- if the people responsible for these attacks on the forum -- and me -- continue in any way, I will just dump every crazy email they've ever sent me onto the web and members can make up their own minds on the matter.
For those who think that we're bending over too far to cater to the crazies, I will post my one and only reply to them on this matter:
I've had a lot of issues in the past with the sender, and have long-since directly his countless abusive emails to the trash, but a quick look through the trash found nine emails yesterday, all offering different degrees of threats and abuse. One of them maintained that a restraining order had been granted against me? and our members?? I'm not too sure of this, as I suspect that this is a scare tactic, and it's not the first time that people have used forged documents to make their point. I will make a copy of the 'restraining order' available to anyone who is concerned about the consequences.
So for the time being a need to warn members that mentioning any of these people listed in the restraining order -- Ian Thatcher, Tracey Thatcher, James Harris, any combination of these, or referring to them in any way which may identify them, is strictly prohibited on this forum. This includes anything such as Th*****r, and unfortunately prevents me from using my newly invented term 'harrisment'. Any breach will result in a suspension, and repeated breaches will mean a life-time ban.
I need to make it clear that I do not give any validity to the restraining order, this is a measure to put this matter to rest once and for all. It applies to all parties -- if the people responsible for these attacks on the forum -- and me -- continue in any way, I will just dump every crazy email they've ever sent me onto the web and members can make up their own minds on the matter.
For those who think that we're bending over too far to cater to the crazies, I will post my one and only reply to them on this matter:
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Personally, I say bring it on, you absolute crazy ****. Your countless threats have finally gone too far. Stick that up your Arrest Warrant.[/quote]
...which is my own personal reaction, and in no ways represent the official response from NZFF:)
This will remain open for comments, but must strictly comply with the new rule, so be careful. Also I can be contacted by PM if anyone is concerned about how this may affect them.
-Robin Corn
...which is my own personal reaction, and in no ways represent the official response from NZFF:)
This will remain open for comments, but must strictly comply with the new rule, so be careful. Also I can be contacted by PM if anyone is concerned about how this may affect them.
-Robin Corn
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