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Re: a very, very important warning to all the members

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 16, 2013 4:57AM

It's been checked into and those involved are now set to be moderated.
Such posts are neither on-topic or appropriate for this list. Let's
please not respond publicly and fan the fires any more.

Jared

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> List members, I'm wondering if the email below is spam.
> It certainly is a bizarre story.
>
> Can any of the moderators check into this?
> -Bevi Chagnon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Country DJ Maheen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:19 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: [WebAIM] a very, very important warning to all the members
>
> To each and every single one of the members on this mailing list.
>
> My name is Maheen Wickramasinghe. I am 28 years old, and I am visually
> impaired in both eyes. I have been blind all my life. Now, please, I am
> going to ask you, to all take a deep, deep breath, and calm down I mean no
> harm to any of you.
>
> I have a psychiatric condition. I have a mental disorder. I have anxiety,
> severe OCD, epilepsy, and insomnia. I found out late last night that I have
> developed type 2 diabetes, and my apetite has been so severely drained and
> my sleep has literally been altered.
>
> There is a blind person, on lists, who is a cold hearted, mean spirited,
> vitious, heartless person, by the name of Andrew Edjcumbe. He made me all
> over the map a few days ago, and sank me into a deep depression, and I
> attempted suicide. He is a nasty, severely nasty bully and he sent the most
> crudest, most vitious, ugliest email to me, bullying and bullying me and it
> was just so abusive, violent and nasty!!! Friends, Andrew, is a vitious
> human being and a very sick individual. He is saying to me that I do not
> deserve friends or family. Can you possibly imagine how a person could scoop
> so low to say such things to a mentally ill person? He is even abusive to
> another sighted friend who's name will not be mentioned on this list. He is
> a down right sick individual. I am changing my email address as of today, so
> please get me out of this group. I do not trust blind people any longer. I
> am finished. I have developed type 2 diabetes, and can't eat, nor sleep. I
> am very, very hurt, distraught, and upset deeply. If it hadn't been for
> country gospel singer Jimmie Davis, my life would never have been so full of
> happiness. He has literally been helping me get through the vitious things
> Andrew did to me. His email is:
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>
> Somebody has supposedly told him I gossiped about him behind his back, which
> I did not. Leave me alone. Lead me be!!! I do not trust anybody. I'm done!
>
> Now, do not bother sending me abusive emails because I can't go through
> abuse any longer as my life is beginning to become a lot calmer, and
> happier. Thank you for reading, and do not, I repeat do not, trust Mr.
> Edjcumbe. He and his friend, Mr. Lamborti say they helped me, what a
> completely retarded statement. They bullied me so severely and they upset my
> family, friends, and everyone as I attempted suicide very badly. My energy
> is literally drained. Andrew is going to be jailed anyway as my dad has
> contacts with people who know attornies.
>
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