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I’m going to deal with email harrassment as it seems to me that your by-law allows screens provided they are in keeping with the look of the building.
To deal with the emails, just block that email address with an automatic response that says something like “This email address has been blocked due to abuse. Your email has not been read but has been retained for future reference.”
How you do that will depend on which email software you use. Google “block email addresses on (Gmail or whatever). Get everyone else to do it too and it will soon stop the nonsense.
If that doesn’t work, and the emails truly are abusive or even worse, threatening, you can seek an apprehended personal violence order through a local court. That order would be for the person not to contact you except through their lawyer.
Or you could hold a meeting at which you can pass a motion of censure against the miscreant. That might quieten them down or it might make them worse.
Unfortunately, strata is fertile ground for obsessive nutters who have nothing better to do than harass their neighbours over imagined slights and non-existent breaches.
The easiest way to deal with them is not deal with them at all until they are the ones breaching by-laws, then you come down on them like a ton of bricks.