Dudley Henriques wrote:

I am in the process of dealing with an unknown person or persons using
my name to post here on this forum.

That *******! :-)

Fortunately I have a few international contacts who are looking into
it overseas for me.

What a lucky guy you are! :-)))

I understand someone could open an account on one of the free servers

No, obviously you don't understand anything about how usenet works. :-)))))