This was sent to me, and my ISP who has never contacted me with any
complaint or other email they have had from Richard Katz.  Considering that
rk works with computers as part of his job and that he's also one of the
moderators of several newsgroups (including sci.space.mod), you would
_think_ knowing how to contact an ISP would be very basic knowledge.

He emailed it to his best buddy OM. He also emailed it back to himself.  If
you make a complaint to an ISP, why email the complaint to a 'friend' or the
person you are complaining about?

I feel that the attacks, if they are from Richard Katz, may be due to my
raising the
issue of his association with Scott Grissom on several occasions, including
deleting posts from sci.space.mod which were related to Scott Grissom.

For those not on the sci.space groups Scott is the son of Gus Grissom who
died in the Apollo 1 fire.  Scott has made accusations about NASA
involvement in the fire with the intention of preventing Gus from being the
first person to land
on the Moon.

An interesting point is that Richard Katz works for NASA (or did a few
months ago when I started asking questions on the sci.space groups about
Grissom) and such involvement may compromise such a position.

The following is the full, unabridged, unedited (no spelling corrections,
removed or modified words or sentences etc) email with the exception of
the references to various posts which are at the end of his email (read and
that last bit will be explained, but the references were my suggestions
[accusations] of rk's involvement).  It was received on July 16 and I just
found out about it today (21 July) as it was on my ISP's server and didn't
make it to my computer's inbox.

In reference to the references, none of the groups that Richard Katz
mentions are sci.space groups (he mentions alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer,
alt.fan.harry-potter, rec.sport.soccer,aus.bicycle, misc.survivalism,
alt.survival, misc.kids).
--
Alan Erskine
alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au
Did John Howard lie to the Australian people?

<begin copy of email>

Hi,

Unfortunately your customer has been on an extended campaign attacking me in
various newsgroups with "charges" of performing acts that at best are wrong
and at worst may be illegal.  A few posts of his are included below and make
reference to some quite obscene posts. While I understand that he may be
angry and frustrated at the situation he is in in Usenet, but this does not
excuse his abuse of others.

I do not wish to make a complaint at this time but do not know what other
e-mail address to use for optusnet so I am using this one.  I am writing to
his ISP since his many public outbursts appear to be uncontrolled and an
intermediary seems to be a good idea at this time.

I would suggest that your user:

  * Stop the harrassment
  * Clean up the mess he made

I don't particularly care if he apologizes or not, publicly or privately as
I don't know him, don't recall ever writing to him or in response to him,
and don't bother to read his posts in the newsgroups for the most part.

He should write a letter explaining what he did was incorrect, sent via the
physical mail system, for my records.

Thanks,

Richard B. Katz
9558 Many Mile Mews
Columbia, MD USA

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