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Agnsiz: Thanks for this post. (What a way my parties have of turning out! Shit!) For what it is worth, my point (which I fear is what set this all off) was not that you had busted anybody's privacy or anonymity, but that we were all treading very close to the line where we might accidentally do so and needed to be careful. Most especially, a lot of people know which of our members uses "John Daw" as his private e-mail address, but it feels inapproriate to me to reveal it to anyone he has not himself.Let me also say that I really don't understand exactly what "private" information I shared about either of you. All I said was that I received an email with the name "John Daw." How is this so "private"? I didn't share his real name. I didn't share his email address.
I concur. You did not, and I didn't mean to imply such a thing, but I can understand how the new John might have concluded that from our exchange and the subsequent one I had with Daverock. I wanted us all to be very careful, that's all.I can understand the want for privacy and anonimity and I respect that. I don't believe I've compromised anyone's privacy, though! I won't stand by and let others say that I did, either.
Of course you did not do that. If anyone did, it was me. I should have said faster that I was pretty sure this John Daw was not who we thought all first thought he was. It might have solved a lot. I actually intended to write to the new John to warn him of the situation and defuse it in advance, but he had no contact options.To the rest of you, I apoligize for wrecking the party. That certainly was not my intention either.
So we all learned.
Let's hope our new friend checks back, reads of our remorse, and chooses to come back. And while I am at it, I still am grateful for our old John as well. Perhaps someday the two of them can talk it through.