Anonymous and threatening email sent to a member

[trumansmom]

ETC: I used misleading language. The email was from a fake email address, NOT a fake user account. It's not traceable through the BBB without the IP. We're respecting the reciever's wishes by not pursuing it further.

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I'm so sad, and so angry! It just came to my attention that a longtime member and friend on this board received an anonymous email after a post she made. It was from a made up email account and contained a thinly veiled threat. It was unbelievably cruel. She chose to delete it instead of pursuing getting the user banned.

Please know if anyone else ever recieves an email like this and would like to pursue it further, I will be more than happy to help.

Our community is made up of good people. We may disagree sometimes, but we do NOT engage in this sort of nastiness.

Jeanne
Mom to Truman 11/01 and Eleanor 4/04

[Wife_and_mommy]

nak

how sadly pathetic... crazy me thought we were all adults.... grow up anonymous one...


Elizabeth
mommy to DD(April '04) and DS(January '06)

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[Toba]

It just amazes me that people can't be respectful of someone else's views/opinions. Just simply amazes me. *sigh*


~Kimberly Anne~
Noah Nevan, March 12, 2004
*the light of my life*

[elliput]

*shaking head* How incredibly pathetic.

As a community, it is in our best interest to respect other's opinions even if they are on the complete opposite side of an issue, as we all have something valid to bring to the table for discussion. The ability to listen to an opposing viewpoint respectfully, and respond respectfully, IMO, is an essential element of personal growth.

Thank you, Jeanne, for letting us know about this incident.

[mommyoftwo]

This makes me very sad and angry too. While I certainly don't agree with everyone here all the time (that would be impossible), I really appreciate hearing other viewpoints and perspectives. I've learned a lot from everyone here and have really changed my own thinking on a number of things due to other people's insights. The boards should be a place where you can feel free to discuss your point of view and also a place where you can feel free to disagree without fear of repercussions. Shame on you, whoever you are.

[pb&j]

Wow, that's awful! :(


-Ry,
mom to Emma, stillborn 11/04/04
and Max, 01/05/06

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[Rachels]

That is horrible! Scary, too. I'm so sorry for whoever it happened to.

-Rachel
Mama to Abigail Rose
5/18/02
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Nursed for three years!

and Ethan James
10/19/05
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"When you know better, you do better."
Maya

[cmdunn1972]

Jeanne, sorry to hear that you and your friend are having to deal with this appalling and immature behavior.

[Saartje]

How awful and scary. I, too, am sad and angry.

[annasmom]

Jeanne, I wonder whether a rule could be implemented that requires members to report emails such as this. It would obviously be an honor-code type of rule, since there is no way to really enforce it.

Don't get me wrong, I think I understand why your friend deleted the email, and I probably would have done the same thing. But, objectively, this is scary. There are a lot of crazy people in this world. If something, god forbid, were to happen to anyone here and we could have done something to intervene, I would feel horribly.

Just a thought.