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Thanks For The Anonymous EMail
Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 5:57 PM on 12.05.10 |
->> Received this today from some wonderful person with an IP address in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. You'll be able to get the gist of the message, that I have censored, from the return email address provided.
To whom it may concern:
Anonymous = No Guts
"This is a message sent from your SportsShooter.com member page at: http://www.sportsshooter.com/jcolburn
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Sender: Fu colburn
Phone: --not supplied--
Email: Fu@Fu.com
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This user's message:
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Time: 2:39 pm Eastern
Date: December 5th, 2010
Sender's IP address: 68.59.21.117
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 7:39 PM on 12.05.10 |
->> Jim,
You know it wasn't me. You know I would say it to your face. Actually, now I'm close enough to drive and say it to your face. Maybe I will do that soon. No real reason, just on general principle. |
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Scott Serio, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Colora | MD | USA | Posted: 8:02 PM on 12.05.10 |
->> I am a firm believer in having the cohones to confront someone one on one. At least, if by email, to do it with honor, and give my real name. I remember when there was the thread about the photo contest to get a sideline pass. Oh man, the anonymous venomous emails I got from that thread.
If you are going to sit there and act like a child and curse like a fool at me, have enough guts to "say it" to my face and be ready for my honest response. Besides, I know enough to know I probably deserved it. I can be an idiot sometimes...OK...most times. But, I am a big boy, I can handle the criticism. |
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Thomas Campbell, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 8:28 PM on 12.05.10 |
| ->> Thanks for sharing, Jim. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 10:15 PM on 12.05.10 |
->> I got one of those earlier this year.
Some Gutless Weenie that didn't have the Cojones to stand up like a REAL Man and tell me to my face!!
FWIW, I know who it was, this town is too small to hide behind an ISP, but I still think he's a Gutless Weenie!!
If you disagree with me, say so openly, heck, you can also call me on the phone, I'll talk to you. But at least have the Cojones to sign your name if you decide to do it via E-Mail. |
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Michael Ip, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:38 AM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> Disgruntled Gamecocks fan maybe? Are you an Auburn enthusiast by chance? |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 9:44 AM on 12.06.10 |
->> "Are you an Auburn enthusiast by chance?"
Not really, although I do think that the 1932 Auburn Speedster was a mighty fine looking car... |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 11:00 AM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> I wish that there was a way of limiting email to members only... just like the classifieds. Have it be something that we can setup in our profile page. |
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 11:07 AM on 12.06.10 |
->> It would seem to me that the only way anonymous e-mailers could get any traction is through threads, or message responses, like this.
No name - who cares? |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 11:19 AM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> Eric, I personally enjoy emails from people not on the site. I would certainly be against limiting email responses to just the SS members. I've even been contacted by old acquaintances who see my name on the search engines from SS. I've received my fair share of anonymous emails also, think I even started a thread once several years ago but just figure it comes with the (internet) territory. not worth my time to throw out a message trying to goad someone into responding back. if someone doesn't have the gumption to sign their name I just figure they're much like the trolls who respond to various stories on news sites, not worth my time. it's now just a fact of life...."move on...nothing to see here" kind of thing. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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->> Chuck,
I think two of those anonymous e-mails were from me ... disregard them ... I meant to send them to Geo :0) |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 11:56 AM on 12.06.10 |
->> Jim, Bill Murrary lives in Mount Pleasant... he's probably up to his practical jokes again. You know how he gets this time of year with the egg nog and all.
"I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me." - Ghostbusters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_South_Carolina |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | US | Posted: 11:59 AM on 12.06.10 |
->> Interesting that the people who gets these seem to be some of the bigger shit stirrers on this site.
Just sayin' ... |
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Nick Adams, Photographer
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Houston | TX | | Posted: 12:06 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> You know you can delete emails? |
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Allen Murabayashi, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 12:15 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/opinion/30zhuo.html
Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its roots go much farther back. Even in the fourth century B.C., Plato touched upon the subject of anonymity and morality in his parable of the ring of Gyges.
That mythical ring gave its owner the power of invisibility, and Plato observed that even a habitually just man who possessed such a ring would become a thief, knowing that he couldn’t be caught. Morality, Plato argues, comes from full disclosure; without accountability for our actions we would all behave unjustly. |
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Mike Anzaldi, Photographer
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Oak Park | IL | USA | Posted: 1:11 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> a thread about an anonymous email? really? |
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Kevin Krows, Photographer
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Forsyth | IL | USA | Posted: 1:22 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> Jim -- stuff like this is what sidelines many valuable contributors to SS. Sorry to hear about it and hope you'll continue to post even when they are throwing beer on you from the cheap seats. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:24 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> George, could you drive over and bitch slap G.J. for me?
calling me names like that! 8)
@nick....man I save all of those emails. they make me laugh.... |
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Mick Motor, Photographer
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Honolulu | Hawaii | USA | Posted: 1:28 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> @Allen,
that was the best response in any thread ever! |
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Todd Spoth, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 1:39 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> STOP
WHINING! |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 2:35 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> Toddster! Was it you? |
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Dave Breen, Photographer
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Somerset | PA | USA | Posted: 2:45 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> Jim, Your five recent posts that link from you page aren't very scathing. The anonymous mailer must have been a reporter (or editor?) replying to your T-shirt post. |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 3:24 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> I only respond to troublesome e-mails from SS.com members that come in thru my member page. If I get a stupid e-mail from a non-member, I ask them to pay the $25 to join, then I will respond to them.
BTW, my brother lives in MP, but he said he doesn't even know Jim. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 3:57 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> I just got an angry un-anonymous email. Woo. |
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