[Jima64]

Block him, tell him and find whichever authorities deal with this and report it.

[npwalters]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

MA, first, I would keep all of the e-mails, I would then contact the local law enforcement, provide the e-mails and the background with regard to this matter. It may be possible to get a cease and desist order, or something similar. The local police will be able to best advise you on other items that you may want to consider or need to do. You may also consider changing your email address, ask the people that you want to stay in touch with to NOT share your new email address. Some email programs will allow you set an 'out of office' message, but this goes to everyone that sends you mail, so this does not help.
I would also avoid all contact to the extent possible.
Hope this helps, and sorry for your situation.

Seriously??? Talk about pole vaulting over a mouse turd. If it's Facebook there are several options to block an individuals' posts. If it's Email just block the sender.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by SouthOfTheBorder

NO.

Assuming you are talking about your email program and not social media sites, your neighbor will not know you have “blocked” his emails.

Don

Thank you Don. I do not do social media .... put nothing in writing that can come back to bite you in the xxxxx!

[Madelaine Amee]

to everyone who took the time to reply to my urgent request for information.

However, matters might have changed somewhat since I first wrote for help. The other half, who actually is my one and only original husband and the love of my life came back from where ever he was and "messed" around with the computer and lo and behold he found the new email to which he replied without my knowledge, so if all hell breaks lose over on the north side of 466 you will know it was MA and her ever loving husband!

I make light of this, but it is rotten to live knowing someone feels this deeply and you are in his target line.

[Taltarzac725]

Do you not have a junk mail option in your e-mai? Just mark these as "junk mail" and you can just forget about them. I use AOL e-mail which allows me to just designate e-mails as junk mail.

I would not escalate this problem with calls to the police and such but you might want to start keeping a journal of interactions with him in case the situation goes further south. You can use such a journal if you do have to talk to the police. Write down everything like you have a habit to do so.

Just read your new post. Let the hubbies sort it out!!!

[Villageswimmer]

Most folks are gracious about political differences. OTOH, others feel compelled to strike out out of fear and hate or maybe to "educate" you. They like to pick nice people like you--easy targets.
If he's otherwise harmless, don't read them, hit the delete key, and don't acknowledge them. He'll soon tire of this nonsense.
If you truly feel intimidated that he wishes to harm you, that's another story. Sorry this is happening to you.

[bbbbbb]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

What started out as a "sort" of joke with my next door neighbor is beginning to unnerve me. We are poles apart on politics, he is very open about his views, I am very quiet and private about mine. He started sending me irritating little snippets across the internet which I ignored, then they got to be more than snippets, now I am getting pages and pages of stuff from some very weird sites. I know I can put him in blocked mail, but does this show up to the sender that I have him blocked? I do not under any circumstance want to aggravate him enough to maybe get a firebomb through my window .... and I am serious here. Please give me some sensible suggestions on how to keep a neighbor and stop this nonsense.

There are some choices to make. You can:

1.Click on the box at incoming mail and send to Junk Mail.
2. After it is in Junk you can click on the box and then send to BLOCK
3. For Rude folks, we found it is best to get some distance like this:
4. Click on Return and simply say "your emails to this address are no longer opened and reviewed.
5. If he continues to be harsh, you may want to ask the Sheriffs office to intervene for you, they will have it on record and if he goes nuts, they will move swiftly.
Above all. Do not take chances with people who verbally attack you, you know what can be next!!!! Do not worry about losing a friend, he is NOT a friend or this would not be going on.
Be Wise and be Careful, protect yourself. You are not going to be the first person in this area who has neighbor problems.

Mark Twain said if you meet 10 folks and one of them becomes a friend, you are very lucky.
He is not one of the good ones, forget it.
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[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

PS. Did not see South of the Borders reply before posting mine. There you go. Block him.

Yep, blocking him is the right way to go.

Changing e-mails is not only a pain (letting everyone know your new one), but he then wins by making you go to such extremes.

Although a stalker/extremist like this is already on the edge, it's good to hear that your husband has faced him head on.

Bullies like that only respond to someone standing directly up to them.

Hope this works for you.

[jclrxman]

Just block him. He will think you are not responding

[Allegiance]

Ignore it as best you can.

Just delete. You don't even have to open them. He will also not know if they are blocked. They simply go into your deleted folder.

[rjm1cc]

If you send the emails to the spam or junk file on your computer I do not think he will know and this is probably a good solution.

To test your mail system add your husband or a friend to your spam folder and send and email and see what happens.

Good luck.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by npwalters

Seriously??? Talk about pole vaulting over a mouse turd. If it's Email just block the sender.

Funny expression.
My email provider allows me to designate an email as spam. From then on anything from that sender goes to the spam folder.
My provider also has a way (under settings) of blocking messages from specific email addresses. With no notification to the sender.
No reason to give your neighbor any explanations. Best of luck with your neighbor!

[Fred R]

Do what I did. When my neighbor started sending me this political stuff that was only half true anyway I started correcting his pieces and returning them to him with the historical correction. Very soon he stopped sending me this junk because he didn't want to hear any opinion that didn't agree with his. ( Don't confuse me with the facts scenario)

[HimandMe]

I would just click block and forget about him. If he mentions anything, I would reply that politics often makes enemies of otherwise good neighbors and I block anything that looks political.

You really don't owe him and explanation though, just forget about it and think of something you love.