--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > Nabby and Edg, read this: > > http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/can-someone-find-me > > > I knew all the above information already. > > Rick/Alex, what would be "going too far?"
For me, going too far would be revealing non-public information that I received in my capacity as moderator. As I mentioned before in another post, I know Nabby's real name because he emailed me a couple years ago to try and figure out his huge mess of IDs and subscriptions. IMO, it would be a totally unacceptable violation of trust for me to make his name public. Similarly, I knew Offie's real name long before he posted it publicly to FFL because he used to occasionally try and post to FFL while logged in with his real life Yahoo ID, which is not subscribed to FFL, and as moderator, I receive all such postings. I also kept that info to myself. > I haven't had any satisfactory response to that question from you > two. May I hire a detective to work up a dossier on each of you > and post it here? Even if whatever was scrounged up by the > detective was benign, wouldn't you feel invaded to a great degree? It would depend on whether the information was public or not. Right now, there's a subscriber to FFL posting as alex52556 in a really lame attempt to impersonate me. So far, he's posted a link to an old xanga profile of mine and to the comments on a guruphiliac post where some idiot tried to provoke me with negative comments about our house and the fact that I used to have a Manhunt profile that contained an artistic picture of me in my underwear. Some years ago, I'd lost a lot of weight and started to work out, and I was proud of my transformation. So, I had a photographer friend of mine take some pics, one of which was posted on Manhunt. Sure, I was surprised that people other than the intended audience had seen it, but I'm not ashamed of it, and it's not like I didn't know that I was making that photo completely public. IMO, impersonating someone on FFL is certainly a greater "crime" than posting an IP address from the FFL public archives, but I'm not about to boot off my impostor for posting stuff about me that he dug up on Google. > one thing is pretty clear, those whose info was being revealed > were not give any veto power over that publishing of their info. Bullshit! From the very start, this Yahoo group has been set up to allow memberships to be configured with the "Hide my email and IP address from the group moderators" option, which in fact, hides the email and IP address from everyone. Additionally, people from their end can use proxies or email providers that don't reveal originating IP address. If people choose to not hide their IP addresses, that is their choice. However, I have no obligation to dumb down my skill set to pander to people who don't want their IP revealed but won't do a damn thing to prevent making their IP address public in the first place.
