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The Time Has Come to Ditch Email?
Krishna Dagli writes to mention an article at The Register claiming that it's time we stop using email to communicate. From the article: "The problem is, email is now integral to the lives of perhaps a billion people, businesses, and critical applications around the world. It's a victim of its own success. It's a giant ship on a dangerous collision course. All sorts of brilliant, talented people today put far more work into fixing SMTP in various ways (with anti-virus, anti-phishing technologies, anti-spam, anti-spoofing cumbersome encryption technologies, and much more) than could have ever been foreseen in 1981. But it's all for naught."
In conclusion, bite me, it's friday.
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Brad Jesness FAQ 7.0
Brad Jesness FAQ last updated January 12, 2006.
Disclaimer: The Brad Jesness FAQ is being hosted by the owner of WilHelp.Com, Taylor Jimenez. This FAQ is about a USENET abuser and Internet stalker named Brad Jesness. He achieved initial notoriety by abusing the newsgroup sci.psychology.psychotherapy, but has expanded his abuse to many other groups, including, ironically, groups devoted to discussions of Internet abuse. This FAQ was not created by the current host and there are many individual contributors who have provided information in the hope that the more people know about Brad Jesness, the greater the likelihood that he will realize his internet abuse is not achieving the desired result. Make no mistake: If you publicly (on the Internet) confront Brad Jesness without some measure of anonymity, Brad Jesness will not hesitate to call your employer or even law enforcement to harass you. As time goes on and this FAQ is seen by more and more people, Brad Jesness will become less and less a threat. But vigilance must be maintained. Brad Jesness has shown for many years that he becomes utterly obsessed with anyone who dares confront him in public. His obsession is well documented. By the time you finish this FAQ you should have all the information you need to protect yourself from a genuinely dangerous person.
Brad Jesness has claimed to have worked in the psychology field yet it is not clear exactly what it was that he did. From 1995 to the present Brad Jesness has attempted to represent himself as a reputable authority in the field of psychology. At one point Brad Jesness had claimed he was a "certified professional" but was forced to retract such claims. The Minnesota State Board of Psychology, the Minnesota Board of Teaching, Post-Secondary Education and Higher Education boards/agencies all say that Brad is neither licensed nor certified by them.
Brad Jesness has redefined internet stalking for the 21st century. He has attempted to bully, extort, threaten and harass people who dare speak out against his failed logic or outright, dangerous advice. With over 1078 known aliases and his abuse of anonymous remailers, Brad Jesness has managed to become a one man harassment army. Never in the history of the internet has there been such an arrogant and shameless abuser. Several thousand USENET postings over an almost ten year period can be attributed to Brad Jesness or his "supporters". Almost 100% of those posts were mean spirited and/or defamatory.
Many in the field of psychology believe Brad Jesness suffers from acute Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Brad Jesness' demonstrated method of internet abuse would support such a theory. Brad Jesness' intense hatred and distrust of most psychologists will unfortunately prevent him from getting the help he so desperately needs. Apparently Brad Jesness has developed some kind of home-grown, half-baked theories regarding psychology. At the heart of this snake oil is the notion that conventional psychology is completely wrong and only Brad Jesness' radical approach is valid. This type of belief structure and worldview are consistent with most people who suffer NPD. This is really unfortunate for the internet community because Brad Jesness believes he is normal and will never seek help on his own.
The typical M.O. of Brad Jesness is to enlist the help of a "Supporter Of Brad", (SOB) to actually post the offensive material. These posts always speak of Brad Jesness in the third person and are written in such a way that Brad Jesness could perhaps try to deny his authorship. The interesting thing about these posts is that the SOB author frequently has really positive things to say about Brad Jesness. To date, no one other than Brad Jesness has been identified as an SOB and Brad Jesness has offered no hard evidence that any other people are responsible for the SOB abuse of USENET. Posting anonymously cuts both ways. The mechanism that provides his deniability (anonymous remailers) also makes it impossible for him to prov