“I’d guess that some/all of the people who think they are electromagnetically sensitive probably have schizophrenia, and outing them might be ethically iffy.
But the peddlers who collude with them deserve no such courtesy. ”

Perhaps you do not realise that:
1) The World Health Organisation admit that Electrosensitivity is a real condition:

“EHS [ElectroHyperSensitivity] is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. Whatever its cause, EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual.”

2) The UK’s own Health Protection Agency admit that it is a real condition.

3) In Sweden, Electrosensitivity is officially regarded as a Physical Impairment and 250,000 people are registered as being sensitive to electricity (that’s 3% of the Swedish population).

4) Gro Harlem Brundtland, voted in 2004 as the 4th most influential European in the last 25 years behind Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher, suffers from electrosensitivity:
“I am convinced this has to be taken seriously. Some people develop sensitivity to electricity and radiation from equipment such as mobile phones or PCs. If this sensitivity can lead to adverse health-effects as cancer or other diseases, we do not know yet. But I think we should follow the precautionary principle, especially with regard to our children.”

She is also a trained physician.

With regard to ElectroSensitive people sending angry emails – clearly this will only put people’s backs up and turn people against it. However, I have never known people with a Physical Impairment to receive such blatent abuse as they do when they have sensitivities to certain electromagnetic fields. Perhaps the closest thing to it would be sufferers from Chronic Fatigue in the 80′s when they were told they were lazy or had ‘Yuppie Flu’. It’s not suprising that people get angry when their condition is not accepted by society, particularly when it has such profound effects on their ability to lead a normal life.

“I’d guess that some/all of the people who think they are electromagnetically sensitive probably have schizophrenia, and outing them might be ethically iffy.
But the peddlers who collude with them deserve no such courtesy. ”

Perhaps you do not realise that:
1) The World Health Organisation admit that Electrosensitivity is a real condition:

“EHS [ElectroHyperSensitivity] is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. Whatever its cause, EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual.”

2) The UK’s own Health Protection Agency admit that it is a real condition.

3) In Sweden, Electrosensitivity is officially regarded as a Physical Impairment and 250,000 people are registered as being sensitive to electricity (that’s 3% of the Swedish population).

4) Gro Harlem Brundtland, voted in 2004 as the 4th most influential European in the last 25 years behind Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher, suffers from electrosensitivity:
“I am convinced this has to be taken seriously. Some people develop sensitivity to electricity and radiation from equipment such as mobile phones or PCs. If this sensitivity can lead to adverse health-effects as cancer or other diseases, we do not know yet. But I think we should follow the precautionary principle, especially with regard to our children.”

She is also a trained physician.

With regard to ElectroSensitive people sending angry emails – clearly this will only put people’s backs up and turn people against it. However, I have never known people with a Physical Impairment to receive such blatent abuse as they do when they have sensitivities to certain electromagnetic fields. Perhaps the closest thing to it would be sufferers from Chronic Fatigue in the 80′s when they were told they were lazy or had ‘Yuppie Flu’. It’s not suprising that people get angry when their condition is not accepted by society, particularly when it has such profound effects on their ability to lead a normal life.

“I’d guess that some/all of the people who think they are electromagnetically sensitive probably have schizophrenia, and outing them might be ethically iffy.
But the peddlers who collude with them deserve no such courtesy. ”

Perhaps you do not realise that:
1) The World Health Organisation admit that Electrosensitivity is a real condition:

“EHS [ElectroHyperSensitivity] is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. Whatever its cause, EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual.”

2) The UK’s own Health Protection Agency admit that it is a real condition.

3) In Sweden, Electrosensitivity is officially regarded as a Physical Impairment and 250,000 people are registered as being sensitive to electricity (that’s 3% of the Swedish population).

4) Gro Harlem Brundtland, voted in 2004 as the 4th most influential European in the last 25 years behind Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher, suffers from electrosensitivity:
“I am convinced this has to be taken seriously. Some people develop sensitivity to electricity and radiation from equipment such as mobile phones or PCs. If this sensitivity can lead to adverse health-effects as cancer or other diseases, we do not know yet. But I think we should follow the precautionary principle, especially with regard to our children.”

She is also a trained physician.

With regard to ElectroSensitive people sending angry emails – clearly this will only put people’s backs up and turn people against it. However, I have never known people with a Physical Impairment to receive such blatent abuse as they do when they have sensitivities to certain electromagnetic fields. Perhaps the closest thing to it would be sufferers from Chronic Fatigue in the 80′s when they were told they were lazy or had ‘Yuppie Flu’. It’s not suprising that people get angry when their condition is not accepted by society, particularly when it has such profound effects on their ability to lead a normal life.

“Bewildered individuals with reddened skin, eye irritation, tingling, stinging or pricking sensations, swollen mucus membranes, headaches, fatigue and cardiac palpitations were pestering university scientists and commercial electromagnetic shielding experts for advice and help with their symptoms and their causes.”

I think he simply took this from the screenplay for “Dawn of the Dead”.

www.electrosensitivity.org.uk/thisweek.htm

“Dr Disgusting Goldacre of the Guardian”, etc.

Take the text from the body of one of these emails and randomly replace 50% of the characters to produce a new email. Repeat this, each time replacing, totally at random 50% of the characters from the previous email until none of the original email exists. When complete what you are left with, though void of any of the original ‘evil’ email, will contain the ‘energy’ of the original email in a form that will treat the originator (unfornately there isn’t room to go into the details of exactly how this works, all you need to know is that I have Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and am dead good with the computer sciencey things and stuff).

All you need do now is send this email to any homeopath you believe is in need of treatment.

So if I send details of my bank account (passwords, etc) to a friend or relation, that information is confidential. Anyone who intercepts that information and misuses it is liable for damages for any loss I suffer, and probably also for criminal prosecution. The inmformation is so clearly confidential that the interceptor is liable even if they did not actively intercept – eg if the postman delivered it to them in error and they automatically open their letters without looking to check that they are in fact the addressee.

But as a practical matter, you would be foolish to send that kind of information in say an envelope with “My Bank Details” written in large red letters on the envelope, or to re-use a window envelope to send banknotes. Your chances of successfully tracking down, prosecuting, and recovering from unauthorized interception would be small, and your insurers are unlikely to be sympathetic.

Incidentally, patent attorneys have obtained formal legal advice that business emails between them and their clients are confidential.

Anyway – Re the threatening mails etc. I work in Telecomms and there is something called the Telecommunications Act (1984) which basically states that threatening / abusive phones calls are illegal.

I’m fairly sure that this was amended or another act was passed which extends this to all forms of telecommunications including E-mails.

I do know that e-mails are a non-legally binding form of communication which is why banks still use telex service (timestamped in the network) to deal with fund transferrs etc.

Somebody said before about reporting them to the postmaster@ address. This is the recommended first step in dealing with abuvise mails. You can move it up to the police if you are feeling perticularly beligerant.

So please feel free to post the mails!

It all tends to blur into one after a while (not much imagination or what you might call book learning amongst them, unfortunately), but is fairly amusing for a few mins.

Obviously it’d be more fun to post nasty mail, threats etc. from named people, e.g. Durham officials, than from loony randoms…

I’d recommend this book:
www.amazon.com/Toxic-Sludge-Good-You-Relations/dp/1567510604
along with George Orwell’s essay Why I Write and Piers Morgan’s diaries. I’m passionate about the media but I think it’s important to know just how powerful it is and how some people abuse that power.