What do people suggest I do about a cyber threat?

[cloudythescribbler]

Here's an interesting political situation.
Many DUers have found that at many sites, including places for people with medical problems to have a support group, or non-political sites where people raise issues of a progressive nature, what I term 'pit bull trolls' drive them away, thus tending to ghettoize progressives.

Here, from a group of such (who complain bitterly about how DU excludes overt rightwingers, but who were able to find a posting of mine here within 20 minutes without my having mentioned it) comes from one a threat.

Here's the URL citation:http://www.nationalledger.com/news/unmod/index.cgi?frames=n;read=1151

And here is the threat. Note that this is a pretty clear cut case of a pattern of anyone expressing liberal views being trashed, and worse. Then when one DUer showed up, and they knew it was as a result of a posting of mine here, which they had reprinted and said "cloudy is trying to bring the rain", they have been on their best behavior with the one DUer who showed up, unlike with anyone epxressing progressive views up until then. (This is a practice common within left circles of copperheads -- they will create an artificial contrasting case to suggest that the target of their attack, and not they are the problem. This happens on WBAI all the time.)

But here is the threat, verbatim, which I emailed to the site managers. Since National Ledger is rightwing themselves, I doubt that they'll care, but who knows?:

" ...
Go back to the DU and brag about how you came, you saw, yada..yada..

Now.. if you would really like to see my skills behind the keyboard I'll be happy to show you much more than finding your vapid postings at the DU.

That's not a threat by the way (since threats are against the rules) it's a promise.

By the way.. Just an FYI.. AOL is not the most secure ISP on the planet. "

Comments?

[Carolab]

1. Report it to AOL? n/t

[thebigidea]

2. laugh and ignore it.

alternately, laugh and mock the little weasel. His "powers" extend to using a search engine and/or reading the IP information on the message board.

Who does he think he is, Matthew freakin' Wargames Broderick?

[Ruffhowse]

3. That site has a pitifully small user base and some real bandwidth

problems. I felt I was back using my 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. Seems as of now it's just a backwater Free Republic wannabe, nothing much to get concerned over. The design of the site is atrocious. It really makes me appreciate DU's user friendliness. The folks there are sure full of themselves, but that's typical of right wing types. I find that those who brag about their technical skills on the internet are typically less adept than they believe. I wouldn't worry about this jackass and his threats.