Yes, the headers have the location info, and yes, anyone can look up this info, but no, if someone looks up this info and then promotes a wider awareness of that information, then the issue of "invasion of privacy" does arise.
How so? Well, given that folks put a lot of personal info on their facebook pages and many other sites, it becomes a stalking issue if someone dedicates themselves to googling a person to find all the dirt they can cherry pick and then presents it to the public. See? That's stalking, and even though it's legal for me to look into my neighbor's living room when the drapes are open, my neighbor will rightly ask, "Wacchu lookin at fool?" if I stare too long. I believe, slight that it was, that Alex stalked when he looked up the header info -- his intent was to reveal something that he should have known might make the poster uncomfortable, or he should have considered how he'd feel if the tables were turned. Suppose Alex's next door neighbor started reporting here about what he saw going on "over at Alex's place?" It would be only public info, but the publishing of it takes away the burden of scouring the world for such data, and thus, the neighbor would be going beyond mere idle gossip about another since the work load to dig up the info would indicate that the neighbor had an agenda and was on a mission to harm. Just so, Alex did some work to get the info and then republish it "on the front page of FFL." His intent is impossible for us to know, but I would like him to sincerely account for his motivations. Edg --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 > Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 5:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rick Archer: may I have some free professional > advice? > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > No, because I still want to remain anonymous here on FFL. > > > > I know the identities of many anonymous people here and am good at keeping > > them secret. > > Is that so ? At least your "friend", > He is my friend. > the fellow with earpieces looking very gay > you have a problem with that? > and drugged-out > he doesn't take drugs. > from the pictures the Turq posted here, Alex Stanley is doing what he can to > proove you wrong. > Where have you been, did you not read what that fool posted here a couple of > days ago? > I believe I did. He said, correctly, that you can tell where a person is, > roughly, by their IP address, which you can see in the header info of their > post. It has always been that way. What's your point? >
