Re: AOL as ISP - need data to pursue threatening e-mail

From: Leonard Simon (simonl@tvratings.com)
Date: 10/28/02 

From: simonl@tvratings.com (Leonard Simon)
Date: 28 Oct 2002 07:27:19 -0800

EveryMan <anywhere@anytime> wrote in message news:<RYL5NIMD37555.6690046296@Gilgamesh-frog.org>...
> In article <19706dbd.0210251205.f8f6fad@posting.google.com>
> simonl@tvratings.com (Leonard Simon) wrote:
> >
> > Scenario:
> > High School TV production class receiving threatening e-mails of
> > beatings, cursing the teacher and students and sexual abusive language
> > to female students.
> >
> > We traced back mail headers and see the account is an AOL account.
>
> Are you sure? Have you sent a copy of any of the emails with all
> headers to AOL? Many/most headers are fakable. If the harrassment is
> as bad as you say, and I do believe you, then start sending each and
> every message to as many AOL admin accounts as you can dig up.
> They'll be slow to respond, but they will do something.
>
> > Other than trying to get a court order (don't know how to go about
> > getting this in a timely fashion) does anyone know of a way to get AOL
> > to tell us more information.
>
> The court thing is a good place to start. Call your local District
> Attorney's office. They'll be more than happy to direct you to
> whatever agency (State Police normally), and specific person you
> should be talking to. Most cop shops have a "cybercrime" devision
> these days. It shouldn't take all that long for them to get a "John
> Doe" warrant considering the content you describe... maybe 24 hours.
> That might be enough for AOL to at least aggressively seach and
> destroy the user's account.

Thanks to all that responded to this problem.
The local police are in the process of interviewing suspects and other
than that they wish to handle it through the school board.
As a parent of one of the students I feel frustrated that I can't do
more, especially since I know AOL has this information and a simple
"grep" would give us what we need. I also understand the privacy
issues.
Will post more once I know more.

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