Last night I sent D-Mac an e-mail telling him to lay off of my friend,
Helen, and asking him why he continues to add new web pages to his
site to slander me when he had previously agreed to remove them as
part of our truce.  Although I am not in the habit of posting private
e-mails, I feel it necessary to post his reply, lest someone think I
am picking on him unjustly.  It is my opinion that the man is in
serious need of some professional help and I don't just mean
photographically.

So with that backdrop here is the complete e-mail that I received from
D-Mac:
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To Mr Bret. Hogan.
Tennessee USA
4:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT +10 Hours)
March 12, 2007

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Mr Hogan,

Not content with a  "gentleman's agreement" to refrain form doing so,
you continue to cast aspersions on my clients. The lady you persist in
referring to "Bridezilla" is not anywhere near as fat as you appear in
the photos I have of you. Why do you continue to refer to her with
disgusting descriptions intent on degrading her and humiliating her
publicly?

You have no right and no principals in continually referring to anyone
as some grotesque creature from a cartoon. Do you have no respect at
all for women? Moreover, do you actually think anyone in business is
going to sit by and let you say these things and do nothing in
retaliation?

Her lawyer has warned me to do whatever is necessary and do it
promptly to silence you or she will instigate action against me. This,
I will pass on to an action against you.

I am also disgusted in the extreme that you seem to think it's OK for
you to go on with this defamation and slander but scream like a stuck
pig when I take an affirmative (and totally truthful) position to
protect myself from the effects of your behaviour. You really are
asking for the impossible.

It is only going to get worse for you from here unless you stop now.
You have already posted an admission that you created the Pbase site
to which you posted defamatory and slanderous comment attached to
stolen intellectual property of mine (computer images).

Proof of your actions was the one stumbling stone to having sued you
before this. Unless you make and keep an agreement today, not to
persist with your vile behaviour and to refrain from initiating or
making ANY negative comments about me or my business or my photography
or my clients... I will authorise my attorney to commence immediate
action to obtain a restraining order against you pending discover of
any assets you may have with a view to suing you for Copyright
infringement, defamation and slander. Don't make the mistake of
thinking this is bluff.

I shouldn't have allowed you to water down the conditions I sought
last time to end this. Even to the point of my attempting a cordial
newsgroup conversation. My lawyer warns me even now you can't be
trusted and that I should just go ahead with the action.

You clearly saw a weakness in me when you went back on the agreement,
attacking my client (and me) again and again. It isn't going to happen
anymore. Your grace period is over. You'll need to agree to all of the
conditions, unaltered this time and make the agreement within the next
10 hours to avoid me making this whole matter a public issue in the
printed an televised media and taking legal action to protect my
client and my business from your disgusting activities.

Here is the ultimatum
Refrain from posting negative comments about me or my client or my
photography or my business permanently. If you prove you can do this
for 30 days, I will take down any less than flattering reference to
you and any photos of you from my web sites. The truthful description
about your activities will stay until I am satisfied you can be
trusted to keep your word and/or the effects from what you've done
have no impact on my business or my clients. Make the agreement and I
will postpone my intended legal redress.

As for Helen? Look to your own absolutely despicable attack on my
client who never even entered into a conversation with you and then
consider this:

If she buys into the situation she'll get whatever I consider
appropriate in a response.  YOU TELL HER to keep her nose out of it if
you are so concerned. Otherwise she sounds big enough to stick up for
herself. If you present some evidence she is an invalid, mentally
disabled or minor, I will not respond to her prodding.

I'll give you 10 hours from now to send me your agreement. If I don't
hear from you or get the agreement, consider any and all future
communication with me will be through my lawyer whom you will discover
when the first papers are served on you before the end of the month.

It's a long time since I've come across a person as distrustful,
dishonest and self centred as you are. If anyone has got some good
advice for you, it would surely be to break off any attempt at future
public exchanges with me. Based on your latest behaviour, you probably
wouldn't take it.

Douglas St James MacDonald.
Cleveland Queensland, Australia.