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...story begins on the banks of Lake Erie, in Willowick, Ohio (pop. 15,469). It is the last Monday night in January, about 9 o'clock. City councilman Frank Suponcic is home with his wife Linda when the phone rings. Linda answers. "Hi, this is Mike," says the man at the other end, politely enough. Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent. (As Willowick's longest-serving ward councilman, Suponcic has lots of voters calling him at home.) After a while, Mike asks for Annette. Linda tells him he has the wrong number. Mike apologizes and hangs...
...Suponcic's urging, the Willowick city council passed a resolution asking the state and federal governments to close the "loopholes" that allowed anonymous remailers to operate outside the authority of U.S. law-enforcement officials. "Once you've achieved one of these anonymous identities, you're dangerous, and there's no way law enforcement can track it," Suponcic says. "The animal's out of control...
...anon.penet.fi no longer transmits binary image files. Jerry Russell, who runs Florida Online and who looked into the case, says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them. Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell me," says Russell. "The average Joe Blow police detective doesn't know flip about...
Collector's Item. In Willowick, Ohio, Marianne Baucco, 30, accusing Dentist Lawrence Davis of assault and battery, charged that he forced her to his office floor, removed an upper denture for which she still owed...
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