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[Andrew D]

Exactly.

You don't want your identity revealed online, don't post it.

And if you are the CEO of XYZ, Inc., and XYZ, Inc., has a website that tells the whole world who its CEO is, don't tell us that you are the CEO of XYZ, Inc.

But if you decide to tell the whole world who you are, don't come whining when someone points out who you are.

I have never violated the confidence of a PM. (Unlike some other people here, and where was the self-righteous bitching then? Oh, that's right. Nowhere.)

I know the home addresses of various people here. I know the phone numbers of various people here. I could post them, if I wanted to. But I have not. And I will not.

But all I did here was take information that Scooter chose to impart to us and Google it.

That's it.

He chose to announce certain things about himself to the world on this board, and I punched those things into a search engine that every one of us has access to.

That's it.

That's my big fucking crime.

That's how I have become below contempt.

I Googled what he chose to say about himself.

I should be taken out and shot.

[loCAtek]

well, you did ask him...

[Andrew D]

Amplifying:

I found out where QuadDriver lives. I found that out from information he chose to post here.

Any of you could find it out, if you wanted to.

I'm not some internet wizard. I still don't know how to scan a picture and post it.

I'm a low-tech schlub. But I found that out.

Any of you, if you wanted to, could find Lord Jim's home address and phone number. He gave them to me, he gave them to me in confidence, and I will not violate that confidence.

But you could find them out easily.

Why?

Because he has chosen to put them on the net for anyone to see.

Any of you, if you wanted to, could find out where I live.

I have made no secret of the fact that I work at home. I have made no secret of the fact that I am a lawyer licensed to practice in California. The California State Bar has a website. It shows the work addresses of the lawyers licensed to practice in California. My work address is my home address. Go to that website, and presto! there I am.

I could have hidden all of this. I could have spent years posting as Gribbledefritz with a phony email, etc., etc., etc.

But I chose not to.

And so did Scooter.

No one forced him to tell us the name of the hospital. He chose to.

No one forced him to tell us anything about himself. He chose to.

And one of the results -- the mind-bogglingly unsurprising results -- of choosing to tell people who you are is that people know who you are.

[Andrew D]

Yes, I did ask him.

And he chose to answer.

Would you?

If I were to say "what's your phone number, loCAtek?" would you post your home phone number here?

[Sean]

If somebody wanted to find out my phone number on the net I'm sure they could. The point is that I choose where it is published. I do not choose for it to be published on this site so it would be wrong for you or anybody else to do so without my consent.

Anyway, I think a large part of the outrage was not caused by your revelation of Scoot's name but more about the context in which you used it.

Think about it.

[Lord Jim]

If somebody wanted to find out my phone number on the net I'm sure they could. The point is that I choose where it is published.

I'd look it up and write it on the men's room wall of some of the local bars, ("For a free blow job, call Sean at: ") but I doubt anybody would spring for the long distance charges....

[Sean]

Free?

How dare you sir!

[Andrew D]

Anyway, I think a large part of the outrage was not caused by your revelation of Scoot's name but more about the context in which you used it.

Think about it.

So the problem is not my posting his surname (if it is, in fact, his surname)? The problem is what I said about him?

Fine, then.

Call me on what I said about him.

But that's not what I've been seeing.

[Andrew D]

If somebody wanted to find out my phone number on the net I'm sure they could. The point is that I choose where it is published. I do not choose for it to be published on this site so it would be wrong for you or anybody else to do so without my consent.

Where were you when my surname was published on this site?

[Sean]

Anyway, I think a large part of the outrage was not caused by your revelation of Scoot's name but more about the context in which you used it.

Think about it.

So the problem is not my posting his surname (if it is, in fact, his surname)? The problem is what I said about him?

Fine, then.

Call me on what I said about him.

But that's not what I've been seeing.

I called you on your post. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Sean]

If somebody wanted to find out my phone number on the net I'm sure they could. The point is that I choose where it is published. I do not choose for it to be published on this site so it would be wrong for you or anybody else to do so without my consent.

Where were you when my surname was published on this site?

Dunno to be honest. I've never seen your surname published here or anywhere else.

I've seen you referred to as AGD but (and I could well be wrong here) didn't you post under that handle at one time?

[Andrew D]

I should point out that I got a nudge in the right direction.

Still, any of us could have found what I found.

[Scooter]

Yeah, I know exactly from whence you got a "nudge", Andrew. Of course, it was rather more than a "nudge", wasn't it?

You've certainly proven what they say about lying down with dogs, although it's rather pathetic that in your sorry state you didn't realize that you were being used to do someone else's dirty work.

[Sean]

But that does not give you the right to post it here.
Anyway, I for one couldn't find out Scooter's full name...unless of course Scooter is his real first name...

I post here under my real first name as do you Andrew. Others do too.
Those who post under a pseudonym do so because they do not want to use their real name on the board. It doesn't take a genius to work out that using their real name is a breach of common courtesy.

I happen to know the real names of many on this board and will use that name to them in off board correspondence (but only if invited to). I would never dream of using their real names on here.

[Lord Jim]

Yeah, I know exactly from whence you got a "nudge", Andrew. Of course, it was rather more than a "nudge", wasn't it?

Well, since this is so clearly a Quad tactic, obviously he's been getting PMs from Quad. I've been thinking for awhile that was probably the case.

Taking your tactics from a guy who's made clear he despises this board. How desperate can you get?

[@meric@nwom@n]

Clearly agd hates this board too and would see it destroyed just as the csb was.


Too bad , this was nice while it lasted.

[Crackpot]

I believe you've posted your Surname here on at least one occasion Sean and definitely revealed it's homonym.

[Crackpot]

Sorry that was SMF

[Lord Jim]

Well, the good news is that if Andrew's sunk to the level where he's willing to be used as a tool by Quaddriver, there's nowhere lower to go....

That's as low as it can get...rock bottom....

He has nowhere to go but up from there....

[Sean]

I believe you've posted your Surname here on at least one occasion Sean and definitely revealed it's homonym.

I know what you're talking about CP but I didn't actually say it was my surname. You only knew what I was getting at because you know my surname from Facebook.