This is where you can basically anonymously spew bile as much as you want and some of the time it doesn't even get flagged for removal.

These posts typically spawn threads of "you're a dick", "no, you're a dick", "yeah, im gonna key your SUV", "then I'm gonna brain you with a baseball bat" and so on. Flame Warriors abound.

All good fun.

the most recent fun starts with the following:

[ When i was a kid i used to have a huge crush on a Maureen. She was swell. I bet this isn't her ]

Apparently, Maureen has been reading...

Now, of course i'm not gonna let this lie....

Feeling like I've finally accomplished something today, day 102 of my exile, I go off to play with the user section a little, smoke a butt, and talk to shamus? on the phone. A bit later (17 minutes) I get this.

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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:29:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: X. Xxxxxxxxxxx 
To: anon-15206051@craigslist.org

gawd..

give it a rest, already!

if you are so smart, how come you dont know how easy
it is for someone to FORGE a freaking HEADER on an
email and send it so it LOOKS like it is coming from
MAureen's account?

Thats what this virus shit is all about, numbnuts!

Grow up!

spam and forged headers happen..perhaps YOU ought to
be the one not using a computer! 

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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:39:25 -0700
From: SlappyJack 
To: X. Xxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re:

uh...  i think youre yelling at the wrong person?

if you don't have the wrong person:

I do realise how not hard it is to forge a header, but Maureen said herself:
"someone has gotten ahold of my info and is spamming"

'gotten ahold of my info' is NOT forging a header, as far as I know.

as far as the virus goes...  uhm...  yeah. I see your point.

I mean, noone has been warning anyone else about viruses for the past 5 
years or anything.  Noone has been telling us all "do not open 
attachments that are suspect" for the past 5 years.  noone has been 
telling us all for the past 5 years to get antivirus software for your 
computer and keep the shit updated.

Nope.  Noone has been doing that at all.  Viruses.  hunh.  Who'da thunk 
it?  Viruses on the internet?  News to me.

"garden_faerie63"?
please.

-sj

        I'm building an army.
		I'm not sure what it'll do, but you want in.
		http://www.slappyjack.com/user
		

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Note:
      If you email me and you have the word faerie in your username:
            I, along with a large hunk of the world, will instantly consider you an idiot.

I just very well happen to be aware that I'm a bitter, little man.

then, I just saw this:

I do really love it when guys get so angry they type in stuff like it's a shell account, just as a helpful example. the only thing that post was missing was the smell of potato chip grease and a few stains from the Jolt Cola can.

and then I got this! YAY!!!!!!

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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:15:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: X. Xxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re:
To: SlappyJack 

Hey slappy

MAYBE, just maybe...."getting hold of my information"
means (to this person) "email address"

And frankly...

as far as THIS 

> "garden_faerie63"?
> please.

is concerned?   coming from "slappy Jack" I dont think
I would be quick to critique!

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So I, "pompousfool@dorksrus.com" retort....

AND RETORT! YAAAAAY!

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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:28:38 -0700
From: SlappyJack 
To: X. Xxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Let's give this a subject, shall we?

X. Xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hey slappy

Hey R.

> MAYBE, just maybe...."getting hold of my information"
> means (to this person) "email address"

Not knowing a damn thing about your machine is no excuse for either
A) Letting other people use your accounts
B) Not hearing the giant alarming klaxons the media have put up abuot 
viruses

> And frankly...
> as far as THIS 
>>"garden_faerie63"?
>>please.
> is concerned?   coming from "slappy Jack" I dont think
> I would be quick to critique!

A) Thats 'cause you're not me

B) You're correct.  I shuold have come up with something so uniquely 
identifying and personal that I had to slap the year I was born on the 
end of it.  You've got me there, Garden.

Again, you've blown giant holes in my own perceived self worth.

-sj

        I'm building an army.
		I'm not sure what it'll do, but you want in.
		http://www.slappyjack.com/user

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uh, oh. The Garden Faerie is now simply known as "unhappy"
this, by the way, is what your messages come to me from my contact form as.

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''unhappy'' (your_email_address_again_silly@yahoo.com) sent you a message
They sent this message:
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You really need to remove my identifying information 
from your website.


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IP address: 999.999.999.999 in case you wanna block them!
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Unhappy, since I have your attention, I'll just tell you here:

1. You don't want your email to get out, don't send it to people you don't konw.
2. I don't know how you can call the fact that your yahoo profile says you're a woman [if you are who you say you are!] counts as identifying information

   "Lookit that woman walking down the street! I bet thats Garden_Faerie63! That's Her!!!!!"

You big silly. Your yahoo email account is totally anonymous. I can't trace it. [ I went in and looked at the headers again. The first thign in there is the IP of the originating machine. - sj ] You just went and used a form on my site, shich now tells me you're at the IP 999.999.999.999.

It took me a total of 12 seconds to find out who owns that IP address and because of who it is, most likely where the machine using it is located.

That, I'm not gona post, because:

1. I like you cause you got spunk
2. Posting your IP would allow people to pinpoint roughly where you are, because that IS identifying information.

I also know you came to the site and went to these pages:

	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:36:01 /users
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:36:01 /user
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:36:02 /user/
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:36:31 /rants/20030821.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:38:45 /contact.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:39:28 /contact.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:39:55 /spam/?M=D
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:40:05 /spam/20010621b.txt
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:40:31 /legal.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:40:52 /rants/20030818.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:41:33 /contact.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:41:36 /rants/20030821.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:41:45 /KMA.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:42:10 /user/index.phtml?show_user=SlappyJack
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:42:39 /rants/20030821.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:48:47 /bio/index.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:49:51 /crap/index.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:49:52 /crap/storeheader.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:50:14 /
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:50:28 /cards/build_card.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:51:54 /cards/build_card.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:52:02 /cards/build_card.phtml
	Your.IP.address.Here 21/Aug/2003:15:52:43 /

That's at least fair.

Thats me, just a big old softie. I'm getting soft in my age.

Slap out.

21 Aug 03

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Can you tell me how to contact the Craigslist poster, without me revealing MY real address, to hell with theirs. I want to be anonymous to the poster when I email them. Any ideas?

Steve - 28 Apr 2008 9:16 pm

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The best part of the comment above? Steve could have emailled me so I could write him back, but didn't.

>sigh<

SlappyJack - 19 Aug 2008 11:21 am

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