Newsgroup: it.comp.retrocomputing
Titolo: M I`5,Persecu tion ' h arassment at wo rk

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Once I stopped watching television and. listening to the radio at the end of
1990, "they" had to find other. ways of committing abuses. So they took what
must be for them a tried and tested route;. they get at you by subversion of
those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that. with my family or
friends, that meant getting at people in the workplace. to be their
mouthpieces. and do their dirty work for them.
They supplied my employers in Oxford with details from what. was going on in
my private life, and what. I and other people had said at my home and
accommodation in Oxford. So people at work repeated. verbatim words which
had. been said in my home, and repeated what I'd been doing recently. Often
the most trivial things, the ones from your domestic life,. are the ones
which hurt most. One manager in. particular at Oxford continuously abused me
for ten months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats. to terminate
my employment. After ten months. I was forced to seek psychiatric help and
start taking medication, and was away. from work for two months. I spoke
later with a solicitor about what had happened at that company;. he advised
it was only possible to. take action if you had left the company as a result
of harassment, and such an action would. have to be started very soon after
leaving.
Over. a year later the same manager picked on another new worker, with even
more serious results; that employee tried to. commit suicide with an
overdose as. a result of the ill-treatment, and was forced to leave his job.
But he didn't take action. against the company, either. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in that. tangible evidence is difficult to
produce, and the abusers will always have their denials. ready when
challenged. And even if a court accepts what you say happened, it. still
remains to prove that abuse causes the. type of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992. In a recent case before a British court,. a former member of the
Army brought a case against others who had maltreated him ten. years
previously.. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred, it did not
agree. that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice to
the. plaintiff.
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The MI5 poster, his name is Mike Corley, he is an IT professional but alas
he has mental health issues. Here are some details about Mike Corley.
He lives in London, UK. He first began his postings to usenet, BBS, and
forums in 1995, unsurprisingly first to alt.conspiracy.
He has his own website:
http://www.five.org.uk/
"There have been numerous newspaper articles and online thesis
about Mike's postings, this is a BBC article on the subject:"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A164404
"And amongst many other covers of the Mike Corley phenomenon
there has been a modern opera about this usenet legend:"
http://www.thecorleyconspiracy.com/
The problem is amplified by posters who reply to Mikes X-post floods
without snipping, and without removing the crossposts.
But also Mike Corley sets "follow-up" groups to his MI5 posts, this is
where he hasn't actually posted to a specific group but it's listed as
"follow-up" in the crossposts, the lusers who reply, their posts show
up in groups that Mike wants flooded.
Mike Corley has set uk.misc as follow-up to all his posts, (which I've
removed) it gets flooded with the replies, and of course your X-posting.
Mike Corley has been doing this since 1995, and he knows what he is doing,
he avoids killfiles/plonk/block by morphing and using pay-as-you-go dial-up.
Filters rarely have an effect as in this example, if you set the criteria as
"MI_5", then the flood morph to "MIfive" or whatever. He dosen't post
via google dispite the headers, nor are the email addies valid, he dances
bewteen proxy servers such as altopia etc, filtering has no effect.
The simple rule with Mike Corley floods is to ignore and not to reply.
Mike will take his medication and eventually stop.....until the next time.
But if lusers do the foolish and reply/x-post/fail-to-snip, then Mike Corley
sticks around.