wherein my idiot harasser discovers my info look at this unrelenting f***ery→[More:]

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I get about two emails a day like this now, filtered straight to trash:

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please don't quote any of the text from these missives in here just in case he searches and finds this thread etc it'd just validate him

I'm trying to figure out what to do. I kinda resent that I have to spend any brain cycles on this at all but ok. One option is just to 'go underground'; lock down my twitter, change my email, etc.

But I'm having a realization that instead of changing my plans of what to be doing online, there might be just a background level of annoyance you have to accept if you're going to be 'out there'. Like if I'm just going to increase my online presence, and maybe down the line writing articles in other publications, being recorded at conferences etc, if someone crazy or annoying (or even an actual personal antagonist) latches onto you, you just have to deal with it, manage and move on as long as they're not affecting your career or your family etc. in a significant way. Like, what do actual high profile public figures do? They must get a load of 'incoming' that's not necessarily sane; it just gets ignored and if it starts getting significant then they work with law enforcement

So to deal with this, filter to delete, ignore it however many months it goes on, and get on with things (and never respond). I was just talking to our friends in bunnies IRC and that's kinda the idea I got as the right approach to take. I think it's pretty much the only thing to do anyway?