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Old October 6th 03, 06:07 PM
Spurious Noise
 
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I totally agree with the comment below.

I used to give my callsign and e-mail address on the NG's and had terrible
grief as a result.
I never flamed anyone and was as diplomatic as possible if I had a different
view or disagreed with a poster.

95% of my posts were to help people. I answered several hundred over a 5
year period.
Being a ham for over 20 years and retired, it gave me a sense of
satisfaction as an Elmer.

Then came the spam, false signups, hate mail, false posts in my name, and
phone calls.
An idiot even cracked my password to QRZ and modified my Bio in a most
hideous way.

Another person here who is female was getting several obscene phone calls a
week when someone used QRZ to find her address, then the phone book for the
number. She had to bring in the authorities to get it stopped.

So that is why so many regular NG posters are anon.

Giving your callsign and true e-mail address DOES NOTHING TO ENHANCE
CREDIBILITY

BEWARE -- Caveat Poster

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73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"'

Gee, how did I know not to use my real name because some wacko like you

would be
looking me up on QRZ to get my address and whatnot. Why were you

trying to look me
up? So you could put me on all sorts of mailing lists or come visit my

house and
throw eggs at it? Grow up!

We may be forced to give out our callsigns on the ham frequencies but

anyone that does
it here is just asking for trouble. Might just as well post your real

email
addresses here too while you are at it so you can get lots of spam.

Now instead of trying to find my address so you can pull your pranks, why

not read the
rest and learn....