What would you do if someone attached your email address to

[d halfnote]

Such a condition currently applies to a situation here....

I know who....

[wmp]

For a guy who's supposedly in show biz, I go out of my way to remain an anonymous nobody. Check out my web site.

 

http://B3and88.com/

 

I've delivered a fair amount of punishment to people who have put my business in the street. Anybody who wastes my time and resources, or steps over the line being antagonistic gets a completely disproportionate helping of punishment. Some folks think they can do anything to you and get away with it.

 

Ask the car dealer who allowed my cell phone # to fall into the wrong hands, or the spammer I caught up with on the golf course a few months ago, or the frat boys who used to live next door. Screwing with me is a very bad idea. If I went around spanking everybody who annoyed me, I'd have no time for anything else. But I do make an example out of a few a year. I'm not vindictive or anything like that. I just sleep a little better after punishing somebody who deserves it.

 

[zephonic]

Yeah, but would J.S.Bach have approved of you using his portrait as an avatar? Smells like privacy infringement to me :-)

 

 

[wmp]

That's PDQ. I don't think JS spilled as much beer on himself.

[d halfnote]

I'm not really here to create an argument but I've come across an apparent case of what I mentioned above, which, while perhaps not a truly fraudulent situation (the mail address is apparent in it's falsity), does illustrate something about someone's character, I think...

[zephonic]

That's PDQ. I don't think JS spill as much beer on himself.

 

Oh yeah, I remember that book. Sort of funny, in a dated, 70's kind of way. The idea was good, though, the execution not so much.

[wmp]

Folks are often under the illusion that certain technologies insulate them from the consequences of their actions. Ask the telemarketer who made a sport out of disturbing me on my cell phone after he was told that I would find him and punish him in person. I do keep my promises.

 

You just never know when you're going to run into somebody who is bat **** crazy and also helped to invent the technology you think you can hide behind. In a room full of keyboard players, it would be very foolish of me to assume that I'm the only one with the skill set and disposition to do serious damage if provoked.

 

I don't mention any of this to pick a fight. I try not to do that. I don't participate in every one that comes looking for me. I probably yap too much about trying to warn idiots. When I do that, I'm only trying to avoid combat.

 

 

[MidLifeCrisis]

Such a condition currently applies to a situation here....

I know who....

 

Sounds like a bannable offense to me.

We all come here to exchange ideas and have fun. Sometimes things get heated but I have never seen anyone step over the line before.

 

Beyond that, I agree with WMP. There are many ways to make people's internet lives miseable. I tend not to let people screw with me.

 

[Yoozer]

Excuse my density, but attached to what exactly?

[wmp]

Doesn't matter. Attached to anything to which I do not want it attached is enough to violate my perimeter. This even applies to idiot friends who email jokes around revealing everybody's email address to everybody else.

 

I know I antagonize a lot of people just by being myself. Actually trying to antagonize them beyond that seems very foolish and dangerous to me. Nobody around here has even come close to arousing my wrath, but some of the recent exchanges between others have crossed boundaries I wouldn't dare cross.

 

 

[Dave Bryce]

Sounds like a bannable offense to me.

To me as well.

 

Somebody want to point out the offender to me, please?

 

dB

[delirium]

It got to be another silly delirium's joke, let's ban him.

 

This even applies to idiot friends who email jokes around revealing everybody's email address to everybody else.

 

you people are amazing... Somehow nobody said a word when Dave Horne used my email address without permission in a thread exposing it to all search engines and spam...

 

I have slowly enough of this forum.

[wmp]

amazing, somehow nobody said a word when Dave Horn used my email address without permission in a thread exposing it to all search engines and spam...

Actually, I did. Loud and clear. Too loud and plenty clear, I thought. I just didn't name names.

 

When I said recent exchanges went over the line, I wasn't talking about one, two, three, or even four people. I lost count. After tearing up that guitar player who wanted cheap tracks, I think folks got a little too excited over a little blood in the water. Sorry for any encouragement I may have given.

 

Of course, I don't draw the lines in this forum. I'm sure I irritate DB as much as anybody, so my vote probably doesn't matter. If I were moderator, I'd just fire a few warning shots and ask folks to rethink what they posted.

 

[SpaceNorman]

Doesn't matter. Attached to anything to which I do not want it attached is enough to violate my perimeter. This even applies to idiot friends who email jokes around revealing everybody's email address to everybody else.

 

Without knowing the details of the incident in question - I'll ask one simple question. How did the individual in question come by your email address in the first place? If you put it into the public domain - you signed up for whatever comes your way - regardless of whether you see it that way or not.

 

While I can appreciate anybody's claim to personal privacy - I gotta ask. What real damages have you suffered from the posting of your email address? A little spam? Some unsolicited emails? To my way of thinking, it's the price we pay for being connected.

 

You'll need to convince me that you've truly been wronged before I can have much empathy for you in this situation.

[wmp]

Nobody did anything to me. But I did see some stuff I wouldn't tolerate.

 

I was just trying to offer a few words of wisdom. Screwing with people is a bad idea.

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave Bryce]

Somehow nobody said a word when Dave Horne used my email address without permission

 

I believe I've seen that post. Wasn't that the email address you had posted in your public profile? I mean, before you changed it to the new gotohell.com one, of course...

 

Screwing with people is a bad idea.

Agreed.

 

dB

[ProfD]

I have slowly enough of this forum.

I know you take shots around here but don't give up on the forum mayne.

 

It's all about understanding the cast of characters.

 

Nobody has the right to cross the line in which I agree with wmp.

[delirium]

Nobody has the right to cross the line in which I agree with wmp.

 

I cross all the lines, I believe in freedom...

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[Mike Davis]

I dig delirium.

[zephonic]

Nobody has the right to cross the line in which I agree with wmp.

 

I cross all the lines, I believe in freedom...

http://www.creationpt.com/images/Crossing_20the_20finish_20line.jpg

 

Sure, but freedom is not the same as anarchism. Freedom comes with responsibility.

 

[retrokeys]

Let us not debate freedom. Let us instead come to the aid of our man d. (us Kentucky boys have to stick together. I played keys in and around Lex from 1965-78). Seriously, fun is fun but putting someone's info out for the simple hell of it goes over the line in my book. Bannable? You bet.

[Gismo Recording]

Simple really. Typically when you sign up for something on the internet they need an email address to send a verification email. After the verification is sent there's no reason to ever use that email address again, so create a new alias when you sign up for something, then after the verification is complete, delete it.

 

[wmp]

When MP finds out your email address is dead, you'll get a PM love note from Jim Quinn.

 

Delirium, I hate to sound like one of those small town cops, but you don't understand freedom, boy. I can voice my opinion around here only for as long as dB allows it. Your freedom to entertain us with your sick humor (yeah, I'm sick and I enjoy it sometimes) is also at his sole discretion.

 

I'm grateful that I grew up in a tough neighborhood where folks regularly killed one another for little or no reason. It taught me important lessons about balancing rights with responsibilities. The importance of protecting my turf without unnecessarily provoking others. By the time I was a teenager, I understood that one important reason I was still alive was that nobody wanted me dead badly enough. I've watched a lot of people learn important life lessons the hard way, too late in life for it to do them any good.

 

One should never confuse freedom with that star spangled baloney they dish up in school. A lot of people die believing in that. Read up on one of my favorite FBI agents, John Connelly, who is going on trial for murder this week. Read up on the brothers Bulger; Whitey, the fugitive mobster and Billy, the former president of the state senate and UMass. The astute observer should understand that all the crap about law and order is just that. No law is going to protect you from anything. That's not how the game is played. It matters not whether you're a player in one of the six branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial, corporate, church, and mob), you need to figure out how all that stuff really works in your neighborhood.

 

The frat boys who used to live next door thought they had the right to make my life miserable by being loud drunken vandals and buffoons with no regard for the rights of others. I tried to warn them, but they thought they were tough and they thought they knew how the law worked. They thought I was going to jail for busting up one of their parties and a few of them with one of my favorite hospitality sticks. They were boucoup surprised to find that I really do understand how things work. I wish I could tell the whole story in public, but I can't.

 

If anybody's wondering why I have a little extra game face on these days, It because it's September and I'm going over this rights, responsibilities and consequences stuff with a new crop of children. Wish them luck.

 

 

[delirium]

Delirium, I hate to sound like one of those small town cops, but you don't understand freedom, boy.

 

you guys are taking all so ad verbum that I feel like in kindergarten in this forum sometimes.

 

 

p.s.

and for the record I'm not the one who attacks first here, "unfortunately" I do hit back also from time to time...

OK, end of pointless discussion.

 

[kanker.]

and for the record I'm not the one who attacks first here

heh

[Postman]

You guys shouldn't drop acid before posting.

[wmp]

You guys shouldn't drop acid before posting.

 

Where the hell were you forty years ago?

 

Is it still that obvious?

 

Damn.

 

[Sven Golly]

You guys shouldn't drop acid before posting.

 

What activity should I drop acid before?

 

[Gismo Recording]

When MP finds out your email address is dead, you'll get a PM love note from Jim Quinn.

How are they going to find out my email address is dead if they never send me emails?

[wmp]

SMTP lets you check the validity of the recipient without sending anything. I'd do that occasionally if this were my sandbox. Of course, it isn't.

 

I got bagged because I never use ISP email. I couldn't sign up using my yahoo address and I didn't have my own domain at the time, so I had to use the ISP's email. I moved and switched ISPs, and I got a PM from Jim after an email bounced. By default, you get email when somebody sends you a PM.