Did I just get a cart00ney legal threat from Canis Claxis?

 
So, I haven't been too active on WikiFur lately, other than checking the Recent changes page on a daily basis to make sure there aren't any major vandalism sprees. It was during my daily check yesterday when I saw this edit. Now on WikiFur, we take issue when people remove content from articles without any explanation. Such edits are almost always reverted because they go against the discussion-oriented nature of how the Wiki works. So, the individual came back and did the same thing, and it went back and forth until the article was finally protected. Then the individual proceeded to pull the same stunt over the article's Talk page until we protected that page too.

Quite persistent of them, aren't they?

So then this appeared in my mailbox:

X-Originating-IP: [4.224.114.123]
From: peg chernicky <jhegalk@hotmail.com>
To: <doug.muth@gmail.com>
Subject:
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:06:06 -0600

Here's something you should read;

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in article 12, states:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Countries such as France protect privacy explicitly in their constitution (France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen), while the Supreme Court of the United States has found that the U.S. constitution contains "penumbras" that implicitly grant a right to privacy against government intrusion, for example in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Other countries without constitutional privacy protections have laws protecting privacy, such as the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act 1998 or Australia's Privacy Act 1988. The European Union requires all member states to legislate to ensure that citizens have a right to privacy, through directives such as Directive 95/46. If the privacy of an individual is breached, the individual may bring a lawsuit asking for monetary damages.

Keep my real name OFF wikifur or I WILL drive to PA and SUE your godamn ass

Wait, what? France? Did I just move to France? balinares, get the car, we're going drinking in Paris! And when did the US join the European Union? I don't think I got the memo...

What's even more amusing here is that the individual failed to state the basis for their claim (no specific edits were cited, zero matches for "peg chernicky" on Google, etc.), there is not much I can reasonably be expected to do here. It's a shame, because they went to all that trouble to try and intimidate me... you'd think they would at least have the decency to make specific demands. In fact, had I not noticed the last line of that email, I would have thought that it was just some random spam that used captcha evasion techniques.

So, do any folks out there know if "peg chernicky" is an actual alias of this "Canis Claxis" fellow? Should I be concerned? Or should I just keep up with the uncontrollable giggling I've had for the last 5 minutes?

[Edit, 18 Nov 2009: Changed links to point to WikiFur's new location.]

RadioFurs at FurFright?

Since I haven't seen any discussion on a simplex frequency for use at the con, I will be listening on 145.550 Mhz with no PL tone by default.

If there is another frequency that gets posted on the convention's message board, I'll probably switch to that, though.

-- K3TCP

(Crossposted to radiofurs)