Posted by Greg on January 21, 2002, at 17:38:01
In reply to Posting of email addresses, posted by Rick on January 21, 2002, at 16:31:52
Hi Rick,
Many months back we had a poster (the old-timers will know who I'm talking about) who was constantly bombarding us with his viewpoints, and more to the point, slamming us for ours. At that time I was still posting my e-mail address. I started receiving on the average of 6-8 e-mails per day form this person, all unsolicited. I posted about flying from the SF Bay Area to Utah to visit a sick friend. That evening I rec'd an e-mail from this person telling me what a heartless bastard I was for flying in a jet that would cause further damage to our failing ozone layer and that by doing so, my sick friend deserved to die. This is a true story Rick.
I immediately changed my e-mail and have not made it public since except for a few rare occasions in the body of a post. This is why I don't post it, I'm sure you'll get numerous reasons from the others.
I hope this finds you doing well and I hope you get a lot of responses. I'm interested to see what the others have to say.
Greg
> I considered adding this post to an email-address related thread above, but my question is more focused on one aspect of the issue.
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> Specifically, it seems as if so many fewer people post their email addresses on this board than a year or two ago (Dr. Bob, please correct me if I'm wrong), and I don't understand why. Even longtime posters who used to post email addresses have stopped doing so. I'm perplexed, since one can (and I do) retain anonymity by setting up a free web-based account primarily for posting here and/or elsewhere. Yes, maybe there's some way to personally track you down, but who's going to go to all that trouble even if it IS possible? I haven't received any harassment, ads for Psychiatric medicines, and in fact have received virtually no spam of any kind on the address I set up to use with P-B. I'm perplexed.
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> Since I sometimes go a month or more without visiting the site, I'm wondering if something came to light that started discouraing posting of email addresses. Perhaps it had something to do with publcation of the Dr. Bob's P-B research study?
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> On a simliar note...A year ago I used to receive a large portion of replies to my posts via email, but now I receive 100% on the board. I guess this is in synch with the increased reticence over being contacted directly, but I still don't get why that reticence increased - dramatically.
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> Any explanations/thoughts anyone can share?
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> Thanks,
> Rick
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