Over the years i've gotten pretty heavily involved in gun boards and political discussion groups. As I usually take a pro-police stance on these things I tend to receive the occasional obscene responses at home. These range from simple profanity, porno, and dead officer photos, to (very long and boring) manifestos and detailed descriptions of what the militia will do to my "JBT" family when the "time" comes. Received one yesterday, apparently because of a posting on a cop bashing thread that is almost 4 months old. Brings the total over the past four years to about 30.
Now, I don't really take these jerks all that seriously, figuring that anyone that threatens from the internet is a gutless coward, and precautions in place for the sort of folks you run into at work are sufficient. However, it gets pretty wearying to get these things from supposed fellow gun owners, almost all from Hotmail type accounts.
To compound the problem, I correspond and meet with a great many gun collectors/shooters through the internet, and constantly changing my email or dropping it all together would really throw a wrench into my hobbies.
What would be the best way to deal with this? proxy accounts and multiple addresses? some sort of filter? Or should I just drop off the email all together except for those on a "prior approved" list? How would you guys approach this?