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JohnI agree with Leon, and we have spoken on this before (Hey Leon). It’s just too easy to post an email out of context or type things that were never there. So I for one say no to posting emails with names etc.
For the most part I have a few folks here I have disagreements with most notably Jim C and perhaps Kevin; to me they are nothing more than differences of opinions although their perception may be quite different and I respect that.
I will however go on the record and say as collector I respect Jim C and his collection and his passion about the hobby and his way of collecting, even though we tend to be like cats and dogs (hi Jim) my respect for him as a collector is still there even if we don’t see eye to eye most of the time. Have we taken shots at each other sure we have, par for the course just two very opinionated guys bound to happen. I can assure you the line stops at that. In no way would I personally bombard Jim with private emails with vulgar demeaning under tones nor would Jim to me I can only assume.
We talk a lot about anonymity on this board, to have it or not. While for the most part I agree with no anonymity allowed and having emails and names along with your posts.
I find it a total abuse of the honest system we have in place for someone to use peoples emails as some sort of odd pathetic ranting avenue, or self ego booster. We talk a lot about personal attacks here; a lot of those are nothing more than shades of gray or personal perception. However, death threats, lawsuits and just plain name calling via email is about as personal as it can get.
Nobody deserves to be called an un-educated commoner, a bottom feeder. Nobody deserves to be threatened physically or any other way, just because of one person’s inadequacies and his ease of access to our available email addresses.
Just my 2 cents.