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1. Who is Richard Morton Scoville aka Margaret Morice aka Free aka FSS with email addresses including freespeechstore@aol.com, cando889@aol.com, ruready941@aol.com, flynow@swbell.net, mamorice@aol.com, KRich97@aol.com, no-reply@freespeechstore.com (and now, apparently, zacksomebody@hotmail.com)doing business as http://www.freespeechstore.com ?
a. Steve Linford refers to Richard M. Scoville <freespeechstore@aol.com> as a "pathological harasser" and notes that the IP address he uses to email for freespeechstore.com has been blocked for spamming. See:
http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=linford-3B0EC0.08452420062003%40news.supernews.com
b. It has been noted that "Dick" Scoville appears to be the person that has been harassing samspade.org and their provider, using a variety of email addresses "flynow@swbell.net, mamorice@aol.com, KRich97@aol.com and a number of flynow??@aol.com addresses" and aliases ("Margaret Morice"). His techniques have included "mailbombing, obscene email, frivolous complaints to providers, harassing phone calls, bogus police reports, threats of lawsuits and a number of other things". See
http://static.samspade.org/flynow.html
c. He's been having a dispute with AmeriSpec that is documented here:
http://ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff60400.htm
d. He has been posting provocatively in several newsgroups (with a variety of aliases, including freespeechstore@aol.com, cando889@aol.com, ruready941@aol.com), for several months, in what looks like a pathetic attempt to draw hits to his website. Many of the posts look an awful lot like USENET spam to me:
http://www.interocitor.net/freespeechstore.html
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore&scoring=d
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030629183222.08084.00001208%40mb-m16.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030612004901.23612.00000336%40mb-m27.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030610074441.14248.00000723%40mb-m29.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=telecom22.505.12%40telecom-digest.org
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030508120525.13779.00000039%40mb-m28.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030426141632.18170.00000138%40mb-m29.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030421171128.18970.00000333%40mb-m03.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030301190611.05716.00000395%40mb-ba.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030420211325.19060.00000401%40mb-m02.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030422162014.19041.00000474%40mb-m06.aol.com
e. It has been suggested that he is attempting to draw people into speaking out of turn, so that he can file a libel suit. He has done the latter before, see:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F24B25815
f. At a minimum, he appears to be looking for reasons to send form-letter (and inaccurate) complaints to providers and employers:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bdo1cl0e1140enews3.newsguy.com
g. He has threatened others with lawsuits, even demanding cash payouts so that he would not sue:
http://obob.manilasites.com/2003/02/26
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore&selm=4efa061a.0307021457.71bf0b88%40posting.google.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore&selm=20030703121258.17929.00000052%40mb-m03.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore&selm=20030516190723.06183.00000190%40mb-m10.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore&selm=20030416194431.18950.00000022%40mb-m25.aol.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore&selm=20030407111239.00575.00000485%40mb-ch.aol.com
h. Even the ACLU has censored him (for posting commercial speech to a non-commercial speech forum):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freespeechstore+ACLU
2. What should I do if I, my ISP. my school or my employer receives unsolicited email from this guy?
a. Submit the email (with full headers) to SpamCop: http://spamcop.net
b. Email an abuse report to the ISP for his site, freespeechstore.com, 65.66.180.194: abuse@swbell.net
c. Email an abuse report to ICG for a AUP violation (if he uses is ICG.NET dialup): abuse@icgcomm.com
d. Email an abuse report to AOL for a TOS violation (if he uses one of his many AOL 'screen names'): tosemail1@aol.com, abuse@aol.com
3. What should I do if I feel that his Newsgroup (USENET) posts violate his ISP's Acceptable Use Policy or the charter of a particular newsgroup?
a. If posted from one of his AOL accounts, email a copy of his post (with full headers) to tosusenet@aol.com, abuse@aol.com
b. If posted from his Texas ICG.net dialup, email a copy of his post (with full headers) to abuse@icgcomm.com
c. If he uses Google, copy groups-abuse@google.com
d. Submit a copy of his post (with full headers) to SpamCop: http://spamcop.net