Rob
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"Fighting injustice, one victory at a time."
Another foul-mouthed kid has lost his e-mail account for sending abusive e-mail to Rob Sherman Advocacy. This guy isn't just foul mouthed. He doesn't know how to spell simple words, doesn't know when to use a capital letter and doesn't know how to use punctuation. On top of all of that, he is also a bigot. In short, this guy is a real loser.
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Wyatt LeClear is seventeen years old. He boasts that he owns a 1994 Chevy S-10 with clear tail lights. Nice. A truck that's only nine years old. That's almost as old as he is.
On Wednesday evening, Wyatt sent me e-mail in which he expressed opposition to my project to ban clear tail lights that don't display red lenses through them. Wyatt's e-mail began with: "dear dumbshit-". Wyatt, you could have at least used capital letters, a proper title and a comma. That would have made it be, "Dear Mr. Dumbshit,".
With respect to his use of clear tail light lenses, Wyatt wrote, "Also, don't take this as some punk kid trying to rebel." I didn't, Wyatt. I took it as some punk kid trying to be a foul-mouthed brat.
In his closing message, Wyatt wrote, complete with the improper capitalization, missing apostrophes and bad spelling that he used: "if your hand is bigger than your face then your gay (i hope your not trying it)". Missing were capital I's for the words, "if" and "I," a comma after the word, "face," a period after the word, "gay" and an apostrophe and the letter, "e," both times from the word, "you're." Also missing was courtesy, manners, compassion and respect for those who are different from you, Wyatt.
I'm not a homosexual, either, Wyatt, but that's no reason to go around mocking or ridiculing them. If they are happy with or even gay about whom they are, leave them alone. Don't pick on them. They are a lot nicer and far more intelligent than you are, and surely have better grammar skills than you, too.
You want me to leave customizers alone with respect to the choices that you guys make with respect to tail light assemblies. How about you leaving gay people alone with respect to the tails in which they choose to light their assemblies? Gay people don't complain about what you do to make the emissions come from your hot rod, so don't find fault with what they do to make the emissions come from theirs. What comes around, goes around, in a manner of speaking.
Wyatt then attempts to demonstrate what a man he is with this line: "My parents are fully behind me." Mommy and Daddy may still love you, Wyatt, but they surely don't support your attitude. They must be mightily embarrassed to have a foul-mouthed, bigoted, punk kid like you for a son. I'll bet that they are just counting the days until you move out of the house so they can be rid of their little problem child.
As I said, Wyatt's e-mail arrived after business hours, two days ago. Yesterday morning, after viewing the e-mail, I forwarded it, complete with the necessary header information, to the Abuse Department at Hotmail. In my message to them, I said, in pertinent part, "What are you going to do to ensure that I never receive another abusive e-mail from this sender?"
Just a few hours later, I received the following response:
Hello Rob,
Thank you for writing to MSN Hotmail.
This is Elaine and I am writing in response to your report against a Hotmail
member. I appreciate your effort bringing this matter to our attention. I have
closed the account you reported in accordance with the Hotmail Terms of Use (TOU).
It is a strict violation of the TOU for our members to send objectionable
material of any kind or nature using our service.
You can view our rules and regulations at:
http://privacy.msn.com/tou/default.asp
I apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.
Thank you for your continued patience.
Sincerely,
Elaine V.
MSN Hotmail Customer Support
Wyatt, I am not your boy friend. You can't talk to me that way. If you do, I won't get mad. I'll get even. My way of getting even is to forward abusive e-mail to the sender's service provider with a polite request to close the account.
Wyatt is going to be in for a little surprise when he tries to log on to his e-mail account, today. Oops! Shouldn't have done that, Wyatt.
If you in the audience don't want to have to start over from scratch in the e-mail world, with a new account where none of your friends knows your address, where you instantly lose all of your subscriptions and where you suddenly have lost all of your saved messages and address files, don't be sending revered, highly respected community leaders like me abusive e-mail.
In terminology that a certain former Hotmail customer can understand, don't be a dumbshit like Wyatt.
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