Vice Presidentand and Manager of the Structures Group
Halff Associates, Inc., 1201 North Bowser Road
Richardson, TX 75081-2275
From: Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
781 Davis Hall,
University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1710
Date: November 24, 2009
Subject: Your November 23, 2009 Hate Mail and Insult Directed towards me
This is to formally notify you that your posting of Nov. 23, 2009 on the
Seaint forum (redacted below) constitutes "hate mail" and personal
"insult" directed towards me and posted in a public forum for all to
read. Your posting is unlawful and has caused and will continue to cause
great harm and injury to me , my family and friends, my students, my
clients and the fine University of California, where I am a professor.
Since these postings are read throughout the world and remain on the
Internet forever, even after I pass and no longer able to defend myself
and my honor, the damage that you have caused will continue to hurt me
and my family long after even have passed away. Unless you duly and
immediately post an apology to me as well all who have read your
posting, promise not to commit such an unlawful act in the future, ask
Seaint to remove your posting and resign from being a member of this
respected forum, I will consider seeking remedy through our judicial
system for the harm and injury that you have caused. Furthermore, I will
also report this extreme violation of Canons of Code of Ethics for
Engineers issued by the National Society of Professional Engineers fro
registered Professional Engineers, such as yourself to follow, and seek
an investigation of the case.
With a copy of this to Seaint, I am also putting Seaint on notice that I
consider the officers of Seaint an accomplice to what you have done
since Seaint has not posted policy on abuse while notifying users not to
use Seaint posts in unlawful manner for hate mail and personal insult
and have not provided a mechanism for "report abuse" as is common in
forums on the internet. Unless Seaint removes your posting immediately
for abusing these pages and prevents you from abusing the forum to
commit an illegal act, I may consider taking my case against Seaint to
the judiciary as well.
For your information, here are the definitions of "hate mail" and
"insult" below.
From Wikiepedia:
*Hate mail* (as electronic <http://www.answers.com/topic/e-mail>, posted
<http://www.answers.com/topic/mail>, or otherwise) is a form of
harassment <http://www.answers.com/topic/harassment>, usually consisting
of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments
towards the recipient. Hate mail often contains exceptionally abusive,
foul or otherwise hurtful language.
The recipient may receive disparaging remarks concerning the subject's
ethnicity <http://www.answers.com/topic/ethnic>, sexuality
<http://www.answers.com/topic/human-sexual-behavior>, religion
<http://www.answers.com/topic/religion>, intelligence
<http://www.answers.com/topic/intelligence>, political ideology
<http://www.answers.com/topic/ideologies-of-parties>, sense of ethics
<http://www.answers.com/topic/ethics-legal-term>, or sense of aesthetics
<http://www.answers.com/topic/aesthetics>. The text of hate mail often
contains profanity <http://www.answers.com/topic/profanity>, or it may
simply contain a negative, disappropriating message.
From http://www.yourdictionary.com/insult
in·sult (in sult*′*; /for n./ in*′*sult′)
transitive verb
1. to treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect;
subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to
hurt the feelings or pride
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Subject: Re: Katrina was not a natural catastrophe but a man-made one
From: Stan Caldwell <stancaldwell@gmail.com>
To: seaint@seaint.org
Professor Astaneh:
You are obviously ......
Regards,
Stan R. Caldwell, P.E., SECB
Plano, Texas
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