recent post in julie's website guestbook

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Posted By: <b>Ben</b><p>I was doing a few updates on Julie's website today, and came across a new post in her guestbook. It reads as follows:<br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><b>First Name : Jackass <br />URL : <br />Comments : I hate the fact that you are soliciting donations for Ben. I think Ben is a LIAR, and you both should be ashamed. F YOU BOTH!!! </b><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />I really hate to think that someone would suspect that I would lie about having my collection stolen. I mean, having my collection stolen was painful enough, but for someone to make a wild allegation of this sort, on JULIE'S website, makes it that much worse.<br /><br />Anyways, I would really like to speak to whomever made this post, so if you are reading this, please contact me at fisherboy7@hotmail.com. And if you are too cowardly to do so, you should be ashamed of yourself for making such a horrible accusation.<br /><br />here's a link to the guestbook so you can see for yourself: <a href="http://us.1.p5.webhosting.yahoo.com/gb/view?member=julie_vognar" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://us.1.p5.webhosting.yahoo.com/gb/view?member=julie_vognar</a>

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Posted By: <b>David Vargha</b><p>I think the poster's name says it all. You will always have stupid people saying stuff like that. I wouldn't worry about anonymous flames thrown by people on message boards. Only worry if people who carry weight in the hobby say things like that.<br><br>DavidVargha@hotmail.com

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Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>Ben, don't let one idiot bum you out. Go back and reread the 100+ post thread in which 100+ of your n54 friends expressed our concern and wellwishing.

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Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>Ben, don't let one idiot bum you out. Go back and reread the 100+ post thread in which 100+ of your n54 friends expressed our concern and wellwishing.

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Posted By: <b>will watson</b><p>i'm no computer expert, but i would think the website administrator would have access to the guy's internet IP address. with his IP, it would be pretty easy to figure out who he is

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Posted By: <b>Ben</b><p>With some help from Brian M. (thanks man), I found a way to delete that post. Still leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but what Mark said was true....the support I have had from people here all along vastly outweighs something like this. <br /><br />Still, if the person who posted that could email me I would really like to have a few words with him.

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Posted By: <b>Judge Dred</b><p>Ben,<br /><br />I doubt that the person would email you unless they did so anonymously and from a difficult to trace account (hotmail, etc). You know what they say, what goes around comes around. That person will have their day. It's good to see you're back in the game!<br /><br />Fred

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Posted By: <b>T206Collectors</b><p>Is a total coward, totally lacking in self-confidence or any character. At the end of the day, he has to live with himself. And that's really the best curse you could hope on him.

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Posted By: <b>Scott Forrest</b><p>it's the internet, it's a troll. There are dumbasses all over the internet who just like to try to prove their own existence by eliciting reactions from others - he succeeded.

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>The guestbook entry is essentially stupid in the first place. As I recall, there were no donations gathered for Ben. This was because Ben specifically asked Julie not to solicit for donations on his behalf.

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Posted By: <b>qualitycards.com</b><p>Don't let that troll get to you.<br />Many trolls act tough & spew venom w/o stating who they are.<br /><br />Any leads to the thief/theives that took your stuff? Has anything surfaced yet?

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I had the same thing happen to me from my website guestbook. I was told about it by a board member and didn't even know it was there. I have since made it where I have to approve guest comments before they post. Today I had one I had to approve and it was the same crap so I just deleted it before it posted. Stupid people in the world...I don't take their **it personally. regards<br /><br />edited for typo

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Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>the only people who would believe in this tale , would also have an attention deficiency syndrome such as this 12 year old. Anyone with common decency would never<br />reply as so.<br /><br />This fool is just trying to kick up something for nothing. He most likely just put his G.I.Joe away and was tucked into bed.<br /><br />Hope your collection is starting to get strong again ,I will send something else down the road whan I get another collection of sorts.<br /><br /><br />Take Care<br />

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>Ben, don't you have the same sort of thing in place that Leon has? You have to approve the guestbook signing before it goes in? <br />David Rudd, actuaslly Keith suggested a bunch of us send cards for Ben and 21 cards have been sent. I didn't think it would work, but it did! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>The crux is that Ben should not be worrying about the opinion from a person who signs himself in as "Jackass." A rule of thumb is to not worry about about the guestbook entries of people who sign themselves in a "The Boogerman," "I.P. Nightly," "Spice Girls Rule!" and "Jackass."

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Posted By: <b>Brian McQueen</b><p><br />Geocities has a setting on their backend that allows you to approve posts to your guestbook before they go up on the site. Unfortunately this was not enabled on your site when this individual made that post. It is still possible to remove unwanted posts which is what we succeeded in doing earlier. However, I would go head and activate the setting that requires all posts to be approved by yourself before being allowed on the site in order to prevent this from happening again. Hope this helps....