In the course of my recent postings, I have received many private
e-mails on the topics I brought up. With a couple of glaring
exceptions, they have been thoughtful and informative. One exception
is a person who calls himself "Steve Jacobs". His recent public post,
in which he is condescending and patronizing, is typical of his tone;
however, in his e-mail to me he dropped all pretense of civility and
proceeded to (in the course of disagreeing with me, which he is of
course free to do) insult me in various ways, stooping to snide
characterizations, and indulging in name-calling. He apparently felt
that his snide public posting wasn't enough. Now, I'm DEATHLY SICK of
seeing this sort of crap in my mailbox every single goddamn time I
post something more controversial than, "Las Vegas has a lot of
casinos." I have blocked this particular graceless boob from my e-mail
inbox, so it won't happen in the future with HIM at least, but for
God's sake why do we have to have our e-mail addresses displayed at
all? The reason I ask, is I'm going to change my e-mail address, while
staying within Yahoo, but I want to keep the filth and nonsense OUT of
this new mailbox this time.
Is it possible to post without having, or at least without showing, a
Yahoo e-mail address?
This is what made me give up on this stupid newsgroup in the first
place! I have largely given up VP, because I truly believe that the
machines are no longer honest, but I still thought I could offer some
advice now and then (I am on the road much of the year so I wouldn't
be posting much anyway), and perhaps get some info on non-Vegas
playing venues. Some people have told me that I "invite" attacks
because of my writing style. Well, making personal remarks, and value
judgments, about someone based on what you see typed into a box on an
Internet site is pretty ludicrous. If you don't like what I say, fine,
lots of people don't. But since you don't KNOW me; have never MET me;
have never had an actual CONVERSATION with me, attacking ME for what I
say is the act of an uninformed lout.
I hasten to add that the verbal vomit poured into my mailbox was far
less in volume than it had been in the past. But I'd like to reduce it
to ZERO.