On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:42:08 +0000, Judith <
jmsmi...@hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:
>Perhaps you can share with us:
>Why did you publish Nuxx Bar's personal details : real name, his job, and who
>he worked for on your devoted Nuxx Bar web page?
Did I? You must have some special knowledge that I don't have. Are you
saying that my entirely speculative identification based on two or
three referenced pieces of information off the internet, was, quite by
chance, accurate according to information in your possession? If you
do know Nuxx Bar's identity, do you have his permission to release it
in this way?
Or are you just speculating, as I was? And as I was when I thought his
name was guy Cuthbertson or Stuart Winter, in both of which cases I
was wrong?
>Why did you remove the web page after Nuxx Bar published *your* personal
>details?
I could hardly have removed it before he published my personal details
since the page didn't exist in October 2008, which was the first of
several times he published my address and phone number.
>Did you think that you had perhaps gone too far?
I thought better of it, no more, no less.
>Did you not consider that what *you* did was a privacy violation of Nuxx Bar?
I think you may be mixing up privacy and anonymity. Nuxx Bar was an
anonymous coward abusing the protection of anonymity to engage in
behaviour described by the judge on Tuesday in terms such as chilling
and sinister. I never went beyond the information we already have for
virtually every long time poster to uk.rec.cycling, and I acknowledged
that it was speculative.
>Why did you not just ask your telephone company to put a track and trace on
>your line? - which they will do if you report nuisance calls to the police.
Track and trace would have revealed precisely what calling number ID
did: that the calls originated with 0800 Reverse. I had already
blocked anonymous calls and the phone boxes used in the past.
I installed a telephone that screens by incoming number and has
time-based screening, so that only friends and family can call at
unsocial hours. I blocked 0800 Reverse and 0800 MumDad and logged
those calls for a period of some weeks. I then obtained a court order,
granted on 1 August, compelling 0800 Reverse to release the numbers,
which they did on 8 August. You will note that these dates were after
I removed the speculation from my website.
>Why did you not serve a Cease and Desist letter on Nuxx Bar?
I'd be delighted. Please give me an admitted, valid name and postal
address so that I can serve the order.
>Why did you not let the police follow their course of action as they had
>arrested Nuxx Bar and had not completed their investigation?
Speculation added to web page 10/7/11
Speculation removed from web page 31/7/11
Order granted against 0800 Reverse 1/8/11
Information received from 0800 Reverse 8/8/11
Crime reported to police 9/8/11
Arrest made 16/10/11
Court order granted against Zen 29/11/11
The case reference for the Zen case was 1RG50305, the case reference
for 0800 Reverse was 1RG50751 (you will note that this is a later
application than the Zen one, which took three trips to court to
finally sort out).
Two previous reports to police were not actioned by them as I had said
I wanted him warned off, I now understand that the police won't fund
RIPA requests and CPS won't authorise anything unless the complainant
makes a firm statement that they are prepared to press charges and
give evidence in court. In 2009 and 2010 I wasn't. By August 2011 I
was prepared to do this, even knowing that it may have a long-term
detrimental effect on the individual's life, because I did not (and
still do not) feel I had any other choice.
>If someone was making nuisance phone calls and visiting your house - I do not
>believe that the police would not do anything. Why did you not insist?
See above.
>What did you hope to get out of this other than self-gratification?
Justice and some peace.
>For how long had you known that Nuxx Bar may have had previous similar problems
>with other people?
Since early July 2011.
>Were you ever told there may be a mental health issue?
No, and that is purely my own speculation based on facts I now have in
my possession.
>I think your description of the case below and the tone you use speaks
>volumes. When you say quite emotional - care to expand?
Let me see. I feel, in roughly descending order: relief that probably
the single most stressful experience of my life is now over; pride in
what the judge indicated was an exceptional piece of work for a
litigant in person; anxiety over the next steps in the police case;
and regret that the multiple warnings and disconnections were not
enough to get this person to understand that they were in the wrong,
and stop.
>I suppose the music in your head is different from the usual voices.
Almost certainly. In my case it's Fischer-Dieskau and Quasthoff,
scarcely on most people's top ten list.
>PS - it is not reality TV - it is someone's life. If someone did do as you
>have accused them - then they were obviously mentally ill.
You think? Do you know who it is then? Have they told you this? I'm
not qualified to judge, myself, but I do certainly suspect some form
of unaddressed personality disorder. Perhaps if you know the person
concerned you could advise them to seek specialist help, I am sure
that as a plea in mitigation it would be quite persuasive.
>I liked where elsewhere you said that you thought that he may have had a recent
>new child - puts it all in perspective doesn't it?
Yes, to think that a grown man would behave in such an adolescent way
is indeed quite disturbing. I have not thought for some while that he
is married or a father, but he is certainly beyond the age at which
anybody normal should have grown out of such behaviour.
>I liked the bit where you said : "there is every chance that it will ruin the
>career of the likely suspect". Makes you think that - doesn't it?
Certainly did me. That's why I did not press the case firmly in 2009
and 2010.
>Did you think it was a game, where someone could lose their career - perhaps
>also having just had a new child?
If it was a game then I can assure you I wasn't enjoying it, and the
rules were exceedingly biased in favour of the other player. It has
cost me, I think, around a thousand pounds, perhaps slightly more, to
get this far. It has also taken several hundred hours of my time
collecting and categorising evidence, presenting it, reading through
law texts to find out how to obtain disclosure and so on.
>You could have gone about things in a totally different way.
>People may have thought better of you if you had.
Who knows. The judge appeared impressed, Zen's legal officer certainly
was, and I have had a large number of supportive and congratulatory
emails.
>But of course you wanted to get some satisfaction and self-gratification rather
>than resolve a serious issue.
Bullshit.
After two previous disconnections and five formal warnings including a
temporary disconnection, followed by termination of his account, he
posted an egregious privacy violation, flat out denied it, then
registered a new account with PlusNet and picked right up again. Every
single setback has been followed by a brief period of inactivity,
followed by a resumption and increasingly rapid escalation.
I strongly believe that the only reason Nuxx has not posted since 20
September is because it was around then that Thames Valley Police
first contacted him.
If I wanted gratification I could get it at much lower personal and
emotional cost. I am pursuing this legally because I firmly believe
that it is the only way to make it stop, and perhaps to stop it
happening to someone else who may be less resourceful than me.
>You have lived up to your reputation - you are a nasty piece of work.
You say. On the other hand one could believe His Honour Judge Bird,
who seemed to think that I am doing something wholly admirable and
doing it in some style, or Zen Internet's legal officer, who could
hardly believe what I had managed to achieve and what I had to go
through to get there.
So, should I trust the opinion of an anonymous coward or trained legal
professionals? Tough call.
To quote one person when I discussed my uneasiness at the fact that
this might the person's career: what on earth has he done to merit
such consideration? He had the option to stop numerous times, each
time he chose to resume and escalate.
>PS Do you still consider yourself a christian?
Yes. Do you still consider yourself a human?