Advice about an abusive editor? - WikiEN-l

15 Feb 2005

Some time ago I criticized user:Xed on his/her talk page for insulting a 
notable wikipedian without justification.

Xed responded on my talk page with "Fuck off you little shit" -- you can 
see the brief exchange that ensued here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slrubenstein#Small_mind

Now, normally I reach a point where I am able just to ignore such 
irritants.  But when someone stops writing on my talk page, and e-mails me 
directly, I kinda feel they have crossed a line.  I just received this e-mail:

...
 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:46:13 GMT
X-Authentication-Warning: tingxi.wikimedia.org: apache set sender to 
wiki(a)wikimedia.org using -f
To: Slrubenstein &lt;rubenste(a)ohiou.edu&gt;
Subject: Cunt
From: Xed &lt;xed2507(a)yahoo.co.uk&gt;
X-Mailer: MediaWiki interuser e-mailer
X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.2.0, Antispam-Data: 
2005.2.15.12 (pm8)
X-PMX-Information: http://www.cns.ohiou.edu/email/filtering/
X-PMX-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, 
__CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, 
__SANE_MSGID 0'

It's interesting to read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt
that "North Americans generally find the word more offensive than the 
British and Australians; in Britain, unlike in America, "cunt" can be used 
as a jovial term of endearment in specific contexts"
As someone quotes on my talk page, "Thank God it was the convicts and not 
the puritans".
What a sycophantic cunt your are.
Love,Xed 
I'd appreciate it if someone would either calm me down, or suggest what 
kind of disciplinary actions may be appropriate at this point.

Thanks,

Steve

Steven L. Rubenstein
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bentley Annex
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701