The world is full of people who are quick to jump to conclusions and refuse to give you the benefit of doubt. I used to use a self hosted blog aggregation soft

The world is full of people who are quick to jump to conclusions and refuse to give you the benefit of doubt. I used to use a self hosted blog aggregation software (Gregarius) and put it up at www.mypersonalsite.com/blogs that was unlisted and unlinked to. It got 3 uniques/month for about 12 months. Then one day a company owner (a regular from the Joel on Software's forums -- a technical person) wrote a blog post linking to my site, calling me a spam blog, and posted my personal information. He sent my host a C&D, and also blocked my work IP (most of the local IBM office) from reading his blog. From what I gather, he looked at his refer logs and saw I clicked through to his blog 2-3 times, went to the link and freaked out that I was displaying his RSS feeds. I emailed him to try and clear it up, and was quite polite, but he kept being an asshole, accusing me of stealing his content and breaking the law. He threatened me with further action, and was condescending because I was 17. ("You should password protect your 'blog reader' as a learning exercise, then blog about it so you'll have content of your own and you won't have steal my content"). He never reached out to contact me. He just sent the C&D, wrote a nasty blog about me, and didn't even try. Once he jumped to conclusions, it was too late.