From: an_old_friend on Aug 22, 10:07 pm

was chatching up on Stevie and noticed this post where Stevie admit AOL
found his stuff libelous (he denies it was but admits AOL thought so)

k4yz said on May 29 2004

Subject: CW Testing Question
From: (Len Over 21)
Date: 5/28/2004 9:56 PM Central Standard Time
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If somethings true, it's not libelous.
AOL thought it was VERY libelous and cancelled that alternate
screen name you used then.
You went ballistic on that "home page" and were clearly deep
into libelous personal attack. AOL concurred.

AOL did what AOL always does...they took the path of least
resistance.

Mark, that happened when you were away from the newsgroup for
a while. Leading up to this posting was Stebie "challenging"
me to provide "proof" of my First "Phone license. No problem,
I scanned it in color with enough resolution to make even the
filligree on the edges nicely visible. I labeled that scanned
image "Attachment."

At about the same time, a hometown (and school days) friend
sent me some images in e-mail and one was labeled "Attach."
That image was a high-quality image of an airborne B-26
converted to firebomber, good shot of the forward part from
above. In the plexiglas nose, one crewmember was "mooning"
the photo plane and camera. Funny!

So, when I got back on line later, I sent Stebie an e-mail
with an attachment. On AOL that I was using then, one can
select attachments from a series of overlay menus. I grabbed
the file "Attach" with the mouse, saw it got attached, and
sent the e-mail. Very quickly (I was still on line) Stebie
sent me a nice e-mail in return thanking me and saying "he
knew he could count on me..." :-)

Obviously, I didn't check file names, separating "Attach"
from "Attachment." You can guess which one got sent the
first time. :-)

A day went by till I got on-line again, only to find a
TOTALLY BERSERK Stebie going absolutely ballistic, cussing me
out, and saying he made a denunciatory Home Page on AOL to
show what a terrible person I am. In the newsgroup I posted
my error explanation but that was NOT ENOUGH. Stebie wanted
more than a "pound of flesh," he wanted a whole meat market
full. :-)

The new Home Page created by Stebie under some alternate
screen name of "NeverTrustLennie" or something like that was
pure, utter LIBEL, so much that it could be spelled out all-caps.
Geezus, Stebie had gone NUTS with all that libelous snit.

I messaged AOL Member Services after making a copy of that page
and had to wait another day for a reply. I let AOL know that
I was considering retaining a lawyer on that matter. No sweat,
I could pay retainer and court cost fees for civil court action
on that. It would have been a sure winner for me had it come to
that. No problem. AOL simply erased that Home Page, notified
Stebie, and erased his new alternate screen name. OK, that was
fair and I said so to AOL Member Services.

During the three days for all that to happen, I re-checked my
directory used for In/Out files, renamed them after making sure
which one was which, and RESENT in e-mail the proper scanned
image of my first First 'Phone (front and back, the back having
had four signatures from the Chief Engineers of WBEL, WRRR,
WREX-TV, and WMCW, all indicating "satisfactory service").
Stebie replied in both e-mail and newsgroup posting that he
"refused to look at it." It was a good scan...I have a good one
...and Adobe PhotoShop made it easy enough to scratch out enough
of my signature to prevent forgery of that yet remain legible
(my name was typed in on the certificate by the FCC).

I sent copies of that scan to some others, the "air moon" image
to some others (Brian Burke thought it was funny). Stebie
stayed ballistic, perhaps in orbit, and has yet to re-enter
the atmosphere of reality.

You DID misrepresent your intentions with an e-mail that
contained OTHER than what you attested to it being.
Poor baby. A simple mistake and you go BALLISTIC!

That Stebie did. Surprising outburst of total ANGER and un-
thinking clearly-libelous prose on that Home Page. Stebie is
an uncontrolled volatile emotionally-driven sociopath when he
doesn't get his way OR if he perceives he was "deceived."
He hasn't changed one bit since...