Death threat received!

[DanielPharos]

Holy sh*t! I just received my first death threat!

Don't worry, I'm not really scared, but it must say it does ruin your day. A guy called Bruce, born in 1976 (or possibly 1975), living in Connecticut (near Bristol) US, gun-lover, beer-lover, maybe into marijuana and possibly a neo-nazi (note: none of these are exaggerated!), sent me an email yesterday asking if I had the old QuakeMap download (QuArK before it was called QuArK). His email was flagged as spam by Hotmail, and it took me a few minutes to figure out it wasn't spam. So I replied I didn't have the download (and pointed him to the QuArK website) and told him he should improve his email-skills. Of course, that was too much: he called me 'rude' (fine) and expressed surprise nobody had yet put a bullet between my eyes (not so fine). Afterwards, I received over a hundred spam-emails calling me a 'prick'.

This Bruce-guy is into Quake, and appears to have been so from the start. Please note: I will not allow speculation publicly here who it really is, and what his internet-name is etc. because I don't want to make the situation any worse than it is. But if somebody is reminded of someone, or thinks they have encountered this person before, please let me know via PM.

[cdunde]

There's too many nuts floating around. 
And of course they're big cowards that love to hide behind stuff anonymously like the internet.

cdunde

[glitchhunter96]

And this is why the US cannot have nice things

hopefully this will all stop and this guy's in prison.

[Hardkore [cp]]

Dan I will hit you up. 

[mking2012]

A neo nazi quake loving redneck who makes death threats about old software...

You just can't make this stuff up.  I hope you catch the guy.

[JPL]

Daniel,

In any country, as far as I know, death threat can be punished by law: you should go to the police, at least to inform them about the threat.  Like you I doubt you have to worry that much... but who knows, world is full of morons that takes gun a kill dozens just because they have been frustrated at some point... and this guy look to have the perfect psychological profile for such stupid "actions"... you have proposed to kick his ass in a good 2v2 DM sessions  

BR

JPL

[DanielPharos]

Hehe thanks for the support, all!

Yeah, I know about the law-enforcement option. Issue is: this is crossing international (even continental) borders, so unless there's a "real" threat, I doubt anything will (or even can) be done. Anyway, now that I have recovered from the initial shock, I'll be okay.

And actually, this sorry excuse for a human has pointed something out to me: does anybody here have all the old versions of QuArK? My own archives (which I've put on SourceForge for download) don't go further back than QuArK 6.2, and I'm missing quite a few versions there too. I think I've got the last QuakeMap 3 release, and QuArK 4.07 and 5.10 (and 5.11 beta), but I'm missing all the in-betweens there as well, and probably a few patches that were released seperately. Does anybody have a (more) complete archive, or knows where to find it?