Godspeed is 100% correct in the fact that it is very simple to find someone's home address, phone number, social security number, etc through the web. Not to mention the ability to do a few naughty things with that information.
The point is that this information, while easily attained, if not always correct. This means you may be screwing some poor innocent person by taking acts against them.
2 Last things...
1) Yes Exodus is huge, but say 300-400 phone calls within a 30 minute time period would piss off any ISP including AT&T and AOL. I'm sure they would invest the 10-15 mins to find the person and most likely kill the offending account. As for what he did, I'm not even sure. I doubt he broke any laws, but bitching = bitching and nobody likes to deal with it on this large a scale... I cant imagine if the numbers ranged higher than that.
2) Ed Sr is a big man and a very intelligent SOB as well, but I am smarter and there is something to be said for being smaller and faster... (not much I know, but hey I could tire him out or bore him to death with technological mumbo jumbo.)
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-- GB