The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79466   Message #1439900
Posted By: CarolC
21-Mar-05 - 03:46 PM
Thread Name: Don't post e-mail addresses
Subject: RE: Don't post e-mail addresses
Well, I'm the one who put it in the political thread. I will take Joe's advice on this issue in the future. While this may be difficult to believe, it had not occurred to me that the woman whose e-mail I had re -posted (from several other threads that I found quite easily while searching the screen name she and her husband partially share), would recieve any e-mails as a result of my having posted it. My bad, mea-culpa, etc. etc. etc.

I would like to say on my behalf, that my reasons were not in any way malicious. There was an innocent third party who was being accused of posting anonymously under multiple screen names, and this person was being blamed for the posts (and what some people in the thread felt was trolling), of the husband of the shared screen name couple. My only reason for posting the e-mail address was to illustrate the genesis of the screen name, and to show that it was a genuine one and not bogus, as at least one person was claiming.

Personally, I think this all-too-common practice of trying to "out" people who some members think aren't who they say they are is getting beyond ridiculous, and this case is a good example of that.

Having said that, I will now go stand in a corner with my dunce cap on for the required period of time.