Update On Another Kind Of Predator

This e-mail was sent to Justin Trogdon at the Randolph County Sherriff's Department this morning:

Officer Trogdon,

I continue to be cyber-stalked.

I've gotten a number of "anonymous" comments on my blog - all from the same IP address in Greensboro - that are increasingly scary. I moderate comments so they wind up in my Inbox first.

The person who is doing this knows this - ergo what he/she is doing is essentially a continuation of the original e-mails.

The last comment could be construed as a threat against my safety.

I have saved the StartCounter data.

The Court case has been continued twice.

No one at the Randolph County Sheriff's cyber-unit has contacted me for follow-up. While I realize our local DA's office may wish me dead, this level of inaction is sad/unacceptable even for them.

Mary Johnson, M.D.

Several months back, upon the advice of other bloggers (and in an effort to encourage dialogue), I opened up the blog to Anonymous comments. As of today, that door is closed.

I have also been advised (by experts outside of Asheboro law enforcement) to disable Blogger e-mail links and such.

While I will continue to post (once I'm back off my imaginary "break"), commentary is going to be closed on most posts for a while.

Think of it like this: It will be like reading editorials on John Edwards at the Greensboro N&R;)

I apologize for any inconvenience to regular readers.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is blogging in Greensboro, North Carolina (aka "Blogsboro"). For despite all their blather about "civility" in the blogosphere (and just like all the hypocritical hot air they've spewed about citizen journalism and accountability and transparency for all) what has been going on for the last several months is a-okay with all of the big "important" area bloggers like Ed Cone and Roch Smith and Sue Polinsky.