AMV Stalkers - A.K.A. Interesting Times with Cornwiggle

[trythil]

Recently, I attempted to send a number of emails to my family and my wife wishing them a happy new year, and hoping to see them soon when I get back to the states...... UNFORTUNATELY, I was NEVER able to send those emails.....

Cornwiggle, spammed my email box today with hundreds of spam emails, overloading my email box and effectively locking down my account. Due to security issues here on base, I have to wait a week, before I'm approved to use a different email account to EMAIL MY FAMILY!!

I don't want to defend what Cornwiggle has done, but...

Why did you direct .org-generated email to the same email account that you use to communicate with family? (Or was it even .org-generated email? I hope you didn't in some way publish that email address publicly, where Cornwiggle could have found it.)

It's important to partition your email -- among many other things -- by trust: members of your family and friend circles have different levels of trust than, say, emails from a program running on a website. (Do you trust that that program will respect your email provider's space and rate limits? I don't think you should.)

My advice can't reverse what happened, but when you get your email reactivated, please be sure to separate .org and your family life: in emails, in conversations, in everything. (If you can't have separate email accounts due to network access restrictions, then I think you're better off simply black-holing .org emails -- it's much better to lose PM notices than it is to lose contact with family members.) And please be sure to keep thinking about that for every website or other emailing system you sign up for.

Good luck in Afghanistan, and thanks for serving the American people.

[trythil]

Good luck in Afghanistan, and thanks for serving the American people.

That is, assuming you're part of the U.S. military. It sounded that way, but you never explicitly said that.

[silverknight2015]

Good luck in Afghanistan, and thanks for serving the American people.

That is, assuming you're part of the U.S. military. It sounded that way, but you never explicitly said that.

I'm in the U.S. Army working with various U.S. Marine Corps Detachments, and some Royal Marine Coalition Units.

Recently, I attempted to send a number of emails to my family and my wife wishing them a happy new year, and hoping to see them soon when I get back to the states...... UNFORTUNATELY, I was NEVER able to send those emails.....

Cornwiggle, spammed my email box today with hundreds of spam emails, overloading my email box and effectively locking down my account. Due to security issues here on base, I have to wait a week, before I'm approved to use a different email account to EMAIL MY FAMILY!!

I don't want to defend what Cornwiggle has done, but...

Why did you direct .org-generated email to the same email account that you use to communicate with family? (Or was it even .org-generated email? I hope you didn't in some way publish that email address publicly, where Cornwiggle could have found it.)

It's important to partition your email -- among many other things -- by trust: members of your family and friend circles have different levels of trust than, say, emails from a program running on a website. (Do you trust that that program will respect your email provider's space and rate limits? I don't think you should.)

My advice can't reverse what happened, but when you get your email reactivated, please be sure to separate .org and your family life: in emails, in conversations, in everything. (If you can't have separate email accounts due to network access restrictions, then I think you're better off simply black-holing .org emails -- it's much better to lose PM notices than it is to lose contact with family members.) And please be sure to keep thinking about that for every website or other emailing system you sign up for.

Good luck in Afghanistan, and thanks for serving the American people.

Yeah thanks for the advice, but I'll work my way through it. When you're as busy as I am, you learn to simplify your email corespondences and other online items; sometimes in quick and dirty ways, so that you can focus on more important things. I'll have to square things away a little more practically next time.


Thank you everyone for your suggestions, but I believe the issues with this guy pretty much spans far more than just me. Looks like he's got quite a list of people he likes to harass, more so than I imagined, judging by how big this thread has gotten.

In any case I've got more important things to worry about for now. But after I take care of things here, I may shift my focus a bit when I go stateside.

More importantly, I just wanted to get a feel as to the extent of this guy's influence over the number of people on the ORG and in other places.

[Castor Troy]

I'm pretty sure he'll stop harassing you since he's apparently read this thread.