Last night, I replied to Dr. Boothe at texeyecare@aol.com with the simple message:

Dr. William A. Boothe:

Defamation and libel has been posted about me on many websites since your email and I have reason to believe it is under your authority. I demand that you remove it all at once or instruct those that work for you to do so.

Surely you have read this by now: [ I gave him a link to this blog. ]

Shortly after I sent that email, the spam attack to this site finally stopped. The spam attack ran from May-20 through May-24, five days straight. The spam involved uploading pornographic images to the site, creating fictitious scorecards, and posting defamatory comments about doctors below existing scorecards. All of the spam has been removed from the site, but archived as evidence. The spam was easy to detect because the spammers used a repetitive pattern. It might not be easy for the public to tell a defamatory comment from spam, though, so the spammers did commit a crime by posting those comments about innocent doctors on this site. The defamatory comments are not online now, but unfortunately, some website users did read some of the comments before they were taken offline. The spammers might think that they were just doing a job that someone instructed them to do, but they were committing a crime.