[meteorite-list] "Rounding Up a Posse"

From: Mark Miconi <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:51 2004
Message-ID: <001001c1a55f$d576e6a0$54b60344_at_ph.cox.net>

Dave,
I live in Phoenix on the border of Glendale and I think I am a pretty avid
reader of the local newspaper and try to watch at least 30 minutes of local
news and this is the first I have heard of it.

Now let me qualify that statement by saying I do not think that our local
newspaper is very good, compared to other cities I have lived in and our
local television news can best be compared to garbage.

Mark M.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_fascination.com>
To: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "Rounding Up a Posse"


> Dear Robert and list;
> So is this anyone that we know...posse or the hunted?
> Best Tucson wishes, Oh, gasp, isn't it about time to update the Tucson
> list again?
> Dave F.
>
> Robert Verish wrote:
>
> >FROM: LA Times - January 24, 2002 - High Tech Section
> >
> >"Rounding Up a Posse" - A bad EBay auction experience
> >spurs an ad hoc Internet manhunt by ordinary folk,
> >who, like frontier vigilantes, find themselves
> >skirting the law in their quest for justice.
> >
> >By CHRISTINE FREY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
> >
> >The posse dogging an online auction seller seized
> >control of his e-mail account, grilled his mother and
> >even assumed his identity in a nationwide hunt for a
> >man they believe swindled as much as $125,000 from
> >buyers through fraudulent Internet auctions.
> >
> >The members of this squad are not federal agents,
> >police detectives or even private investigators. They
> >are salespeople and investment advisors and registered
> >nurses who say they were bilked online by the
> >35-year-old Arizona man and used the Internet to track
> >him down.
> >
> >Like a modern vigilance committee, the 50 or so people
> >from Florida to Alaska seized the community-building
> >power of the World Wide Web both to prompt and to
> >preempt investigation by legitimate law enforcement
> >agencies. Although most have never met, members of the
> >group swapped information daily on a Web site and
> >divided up investigative duties--most of which also
> >were carried out online.
> >
> >Such a rapid, wide-ranging response by ordinary people
> >would have been virtually impossible just a decade
> >ago, before the Internet gave anyone with a cheap
> >dial-up account instant access to e-mail and massive
> >public databases.
> >
> >They are growing increasingly common, particularly in
> >the realm of online gaming, where players gang up to
> >mete out punishment to miscreants.
> >
> >But like vigilante gangs of the American frontier, ad
> >hoc communities seeking justice on the electronic
> >frontier sometimes trample the very laws they seek to
> >enforce, as their quest for justice warps into a plot
> >for revenge.
> >
> >[For the complete article, go to
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/printedition/la-000006012jan24.story?coll
=la%2Dheadlines%2Dpe%2Dtechnology>]
> >
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> >http://auctions.yahoo.com
> >
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