Web Page Brings Harassment Investigation
Q: Does anyone really see anything wrong with the page at
http://lnxprgr3.tripod.com/ (the page is accessible through
a link on that page, which also contains more text on the
issue)?
For those who don't want to click on some random link, let
me explain: the page was written to a girl as an expression
of my feelings toward her. It ended up getting me 3 days of
OSS and 3 days of ISS and put me under a harassment
investigation (most of the "evidence" for the harassment
charge was from a page that wasn't even mine--it was
written by a friend to a girl in another state, but was
misread as mine).
A: They've seen the material--they showed it to me. I went through the pages, saying "yeah, this is mine... this too... wait a minute... this one isn't" (that's when I found out that one of the pages came from a truncated URL--my friend gave her the address to the mirror on his computer as well, but her mother omitted the portion of the address with my username in it, leading them instead to my friend's page). The officer questioned the friend and verified this, but then continued to say that I could be charged with harassment (which hasn't happened so far). Then again, the girl's family was supposed to get a restraining order against me, and that didn't happen (apparently, you actually have to have a reason to get one). At least in the earlier stages, there seemed to be no convincing the officer... or the principal, who fished for reasons I should be suspended, found out he couldn't prove any of them (maybe because I didn't