F2f (ome)

The Verba Interchange is an electronic bulletin board, a virtual meeting place where anyone with a computer and a modem can exchange views, flirt, or argue with complete anonymity. But an ingenious serial killer is using the vast potential of the Net to choose victims for a deadly f2f - a face-to-face meeting. In San Francisco, a serial killer is using the Internet to lure his victims. He devises a game to locate people, then kills them in gruesome fashion and records their death on video tape. But one woman computer expert strikes back A filmmaker idly responds to a murder threat posted on an electronic bulletin board and receives a cryptic warning that her life is in danger from a madman stalking the Internet. Reprint.