I hope we can agree that no matter how we felt after reading each other's email, there was no thought of finding out some personal info on each other to share with someone for some nefareous purpose.

Causing irreparable harm to someone's life over an email is absolutely, positively, inexcusable. I hope those involved in creating the letter are gettting good nite sleeps.

But I really can't understand it. I've never been in a situation before where I've gotten extremely upset over something, and others didn't come to my mental rescue, so to speak. So I've never gotten close to doing something like this before someone talked me out of whatever was on my mind.

The more I think about this........Technically, I could even get carjacked tomorrow. And it would cost less then the 6-7 months I was out of work.


>I feel I should start this with, "Perry, we've had a few disagreements in the past," but that seems to be what everyone is saying to me. Don't want to overuse it. Am I really that cantankerous? Oh well, maybe time again for some self evaluation...
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>I had those same thoughts. So utterly full of anger. I can only imagine what demons are hiding in that mind.
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>>Besides the disbelief that something could go as far as this incident has, I'm even more amazed after reading the letter that Peter has linked to.
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>>What kind of person has that much vindictiveness in them that they a) bother to write this kind of letter, b) spend a significant amount of time they obviously spent to compile the data for the letter?
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>>At a minimum, I'm very glad I use a company name here that I started with a friend of mine a number of yrs ago, and have since ended. I have no intention of changing the name to reflect my actual wereabouts.
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>>>Jay, we've had a few disagreements in the past ;-) but I don't think you are at fault here.
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>>>IMHO it is *highly* significant that people clicked to what you were talking about, despite the initial vagueness of your scenario.
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>>>You did not cause that widespread recognition; IMHO it is something to think about for the participants in this sorry tale.
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>>>FWIW, now that I've seen the letters I find myself shaking my head in disbelief, and wondering whether normal UT users need to create new "Renoir" UT ids in case one of our esteemed leaders decides to finish us too.