October 2002 – Several years ago I created FruitWall which is a small line of text on phonelosers.org that any visitor can customize for all the other visitors to see. Occasionally people will try to cause trouble with FruitWall by posting phone numbers or other information that isn’t allowed. In 2002, someone started posting a lot of attacks against a guy named Pete Scott who runs a website called Crimelife. The stuff he posted would only stay on the main page for a few hours at most, but it would remain in the log file until I emptied it. The log file was accessible to anyone and it was only emptied once or twice per year, whenever I had the time to go in and empty it. Months go by and I don’t notice anything more posted about Pete Scott. Then I get an email from a guy named Jamie Buck…
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:57:12 -0500 From: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com To: rbcp@phonelosers.org, pete@rida.net Subject: Webmaster, please! Hi Brad, Sincerely, cc: Pete Scott |
And here’s what I replied back with…
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:31:11 -0800 (PST) From: “Arbie” brad_the_carter@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Webmaster, please! To: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com So let’s see, you spent a few months spamming a section of my page |
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:41:03 -0600 From: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com To: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Re: Webmaster, please! Ack, well, thanks anyway. |
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:57:07 -0800 (PST) From: “Arbie” brad_the_carter@yahoo.com Reply-to: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Re: Webmaster, please! To: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com Darn it, you were supposed to get mad at me and call me a jerk or I’m just curious though, what happened? Did this guy contact your |
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:02:26 -0600 From: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com To: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Re: Webmaster, please! Thanks!!! No, he didn’t, we were involved and the allegations are By the way, I love your page. And if you ever need legal advice, Thanks again, |
Now after these emails, I actually get a phone call from Peter Scott of
crimelife.com. He tells me about the log files and politely asks me to take them
down immediately. He sounds nice enough but is trying to hurry me up
about it. So I tell him that I probably won’t have time to do it this
week but I will definitely remove the log file for him this weekend. He
seems satisfied enough, says thanks and we hang up. Then later he
sends me this email:
From: “Peter Scott” pete@rida.net To: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Fw: Webmaster, please! Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:15:06 -0500 Brad, |
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:31:45 -0500 From: “Arbie” brad_the_carter@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Fw: Webmaster, please! To: “Peter Scott” pete@rida.net Idiot – I told you on the phone I would delete it. You don’t have |
From: “Peter Scott” pete@rida.net To: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Re: Fw: Webmaster, please! Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:00:31 -0500 have it your way then |
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:17:30 -0800 (PST) From: “Arbie” brad_the_carter@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Fw: Webmaster, please! To: “Peter Scott” pete@rida.net See you in court, sexy! |
So obviously I’m a little pissed that after I was nice to him on the
phone and I really was going to take the stuff about him down, he
says he’s going to sue me. So later that month I finally DO clear
the log file out just because it really needs to be cleared. There
are over a thousand entries in it, all displaying the date, IP address
and the message posted. I decide to be a jerk by clearing out every single line
of the log except for the several dozen posts that have Pete’s name in them.
After I’m done and I’ve spent a few minutes laughing at my supreme cleverness, I
send a couple of emails.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:11:22 -0800 (PST) From: “Arbie” brad_the_carter@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Pete To: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com Hey, I finally cleared my 6 meg FruitWall file today. Check it https://phonelosers.com/fruitwall_log.html I’m going to email Pete now and ask him if he still wants to sue |
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:15:43 -0600 From: “Jamie Buck” jbuck@smithlawetal.com To: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Re: Pete Oh, my god. I am awestruck, Brad. Words fail me. ~J |
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:12:16 -0800 (PST) From: “Arbie” brad_the_carter@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Fw: Webmaster, please! To: “Peter Scott” pete@rida.net Hey sir, I cleared my FruitWall log file this morning. Will https://phonelosers.com/fruitwall_log.html |
From: “Peter Scott” pete@rida.net To: rbcp@phonelosers.org Subject: Re: Fw: Webmaster, please! Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:12:47 -0500 I owe you one. |
And that’s the legend of the FrutWall Posting Scandal of 2000. I left the messages about Pete on the top of the log files for several years before finally clearing them away. Since they were on top, they were the first thing that people saw when they viewed the FruitWall logs. I never did hear from Pete again and I still haven’t been served with a lawsuit from him.