Beware JMS Impersonators! |
JMS can be found interacting on a small number of message systems, such as Compuserve forums, the rastb5m newsgroup , Genie. Any other messages apparently from JMS on other systems should be treated skeptically initally, vis the following note from JMS about impersonators:
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5) Date: 20 May 1997 17:55:29 -0400 Lines: 54 There have lately been a whole slew of people -- or, more likely, one particular, and very disturbed individual, who has been posting messages under my name on a variety of systems. A half dozen or more on a Star Wars web page located at http://www.jediknight.com/board.html; also at the main TV Guide web page at http://bbs2.iguide.com:8086/television/babylon/msg_index.html. There have been other recent incidents of this. Some of the messages are intent upon starting feuds with fans of other shows; others, like the TV Guide message, are designed to hurt the fans of this show by announcing the supposed cancelation of B5, which has not happened. This may even be the same person who sent me a trojan horse program that wiped my hard drive and left a file that says Star Trek Rules. Either way...let me be absolutely clear on this: I am not adding any further message boards to the few I currently inhabit; there ain't time in the world for them all. If you see any message from me on a system where I suddenly appear, check the email return address. In general I *ONLY* post from jmsatb5@aol.com while on the web; the other main email addresses are straczynski@genie.geis.com and 71016.1644@compuserve.com. If the address is other than that, or if the message looks suspicious, let me know and I will confirm or deny if it is mine. These individuals are sick, pathetic twists who are out to harm me, and the fans of this show. They are also in violation of both civil and criminal laws regulating the impersonation of another individual, which is illegal on any venue, net or otherwise. Every effort will be made to locate and prosecute the person or persons involved on a variety of charges, including fraud, misrepresentation, criminal impersonation, libel, invasion of privacy, and malicious mischief. Those involved should know that many systems *do* keep track of logon IDs for purposes of monitoring actual persons vs. hits, and one way or another we *will* find you, and you *will* do jail time. Count on it. Meanwhile, to everyone else...if you see ANYthing under my name that looks suspicious, on a strange system, check the email address first; it's almost always a bogus address to keep me from finding out it's going on. Failing that test, just ask. I'd rather be bothered by a false alarm than have someone posting messages under my name for months, unchecked. My apologies for taking up space on the forum to deal with this, but it has become a serious problem, and people need to know how to tell real jms messages from fake ones. jms
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