This lyst has been a place of many pleasant experiences. Some years back, the enthusiasm and camaraderie of lysator revived my enthusiasm for B7. In fact, many years ago, lysator was the very first internet mailing list I ever belonged to. I learned about netiquette here and many other fun and interesting things. Over the many years I've been a member, the discussions have ranged from friendly to heated and everything in between. We've disagreed, there have been conflicts, but it all seemed to be within the context of our views of a tv show.

It's because I cherish the lyst that I was reluctant to report that lack of civility on the lyst now extends beyond its confines. It's also because I cherish the lyst that I feel I have to share this distressing situation. Because the next target may be you.

Over the last few weeks, I have suddenly begun receiving massive amounts of pornographic emails, not just on my main account, but on every single account where I have website space. These accounts are never used for email and I have NEVER, in years on the internet, received spam at any of those addresses. I also have received a pornographic message in my guest book at my main website for the first time ever.

Yesterday, while attempting to find the source of this Internet Vandalism, I discovered a newsgroup post that called for an "attack" on my website.

Please read the entire newsgroup thread at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=f... seekm=9d4emm%249k1%241%40slb7.atl.mindspring.net#p

If you will click on the website link of the person posting the disturbing messages, I think many of you will be saddened and surprised to find a rather prolific member of this Lyst as the perpetrator. I don't know what to make of this behavior. I'm still coming to terms with it. Until it happened, I wouldn't have expected a fan to do this to another fan.

The barrage of pornographic spam has forced me to block all email for most of my addresses and block the relevant domains/email addresses for my main account. If anyone else has been the victim of similar attacks and would like information on ways to deal with it, please contact me privately and I'll explain the steps I've taken.

So, a word of warning. As someone recently said, disagreement *is* dangerous on this list.

Annie