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

From: Matt Curtin (cmcurtin@interhack.net)
Date: 11/07/02


From: Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>
Date: 07 Nov 2002 12:07:08 -0500

Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:

> AOL (I think) got into *big* trouble a few years ago when they
> divulged the identity of a military man who was posting to a gay
> chat area

It was AOL. The specifics in question were Timothy McVeigh and the
U.S. Navy.

(The gay sailor has the same name but is no relation to the Oklahoma
City bomber.)

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