Mr. Giwer is no stranger to publishing false accusations - his Internet Service Provider, Netcom, has already been placed on legal notice by one user who tired of the lies. Mr. Giwer's latest diatribe has resulted in another such notice being sent to Netcom by registered mail.

Working with Netcom.com, whose equipment was "hijacked" to make the attack, we determined that it originated from Xensei.com. Xensei has kindly confirmed that the originating account was "jeffd," which belongs to one Jeff Dranetz.

Mr. Dranetz had actually bragged about his ability to commit exactly the same type of e-mailbombing, roughly twelve hours after Nizkor was hit. And a little while later, he threatened to do the same thing to another user. His account was suspended.

In reference to those of us who maintain this project, he suggests that his followers "locate them, confront them, and that will be the end of that."

We are taking this threat seriously, because of Mr. Metzger's history of violence: he was found liable, in a civil suit, of inciting three skinheads to beat an Ethiopian immigrant to death. As described in the book Hate Crimes:

Moving up behind Seraw, [Mieske] repeatedly struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat, while Strasser and Brewster kicked all three black men. When it was over ... Seraw was pronounced dead on arrival. He had died as a result of a fractured skull.