Ranchette,
I appreciate your displeasure over the issue of the betrayal of my privacy being brought up 'everytime you turn around', but there are many issues involved in this, and they need to be resolved.
The reason I have raised the issue is due to the email distribution of Kismet's details recently. It is a related issue, and one that is important to many on this board. Why? Because there are many individuals on this board who need their privacy protected. And they need to know that there are individuals who post on this board who cannot be trusted with any kind of personal information.
Does that make me "desperate for attention"? No, I am desperate for answers and I will not give up on this issue until I have those answers. If that means I have to appeal publically on this board, I will.
After all, the individuals involved are posters on this board, and the information was posted publically on this board, so that makes it a subject for this discussion board.
The only crime I committed was trusting people. I sent the pic to people I thought were trusted friends. These individuals deny sending my pic to anyone else, so either someone is lying, or the pic was obtained via illegal means.
If you post something to a person you regard as a friend, you send it to them with the trust that whatever information you give them will be kept confidential, and that it will not be revealed to anyone else without your prior permission.
Somehow the pic came into the hands of someone/s who have an agenda against me. It was distributed to several people who then made cryptic, and not-so-cryptic remarks regarding my looks etc on this board. The ones that have claimed to have seen it (prior to its public posting) are kent, janh, mommy, tina, julie to name a few. I have no doubt there are others who have not mentioned receiving my pic, yet have received it also.
The pic was sent around amongst this group as a means of laughing at me, but then it was posted publically as a means of "punishing" me over some slight I apparently did. Hmmm, so this person believes I slighted him, yet HE didn't take it to me privately to be sorted out. Whaddya think of that, Norm?
I'm sorry if some people are sick of me raising this issue each time other related issues are being discussed, but this is something that is important to me. Not only does it involve the issue of privacy, but it also involves certain peoples agendas in embarrassing and causing hurt to people. And when that agenda has the possibility of hurting my family, then WATCH OUT!
I strongly suspect the individuals behind the distribution of Kismet's private information via email are also the people behind the distribution and public publication of my pic on this board. I have named a couple of them above. There are others whose names are also associated with this group of people.
I believe this issue of the betrayal of trust, and the public "outings" of people is an issue for this board, and until this issue is resolved, it will be one that will come up from time to time. I'm sorry if some are sick of this issue, but it is one that is very important to others on this board, not just me. I just happen to be the one who is speaking up about it.