For those of you who don't know who Sully is, he is the owner and forum administrator at
Boating, Sailing and Cruising Forum: For Cruisers - BY Cruisers, and owner of the company
stuffiminto.com.
Just because he didn't like my self chosen title, he changed it and my signature to my e-mail address without telling me. That pretty much tells you what kind of person he is. BTW, posting someone's e-mail address on the internet without their permission is a gross violation of their privacy, and
if done by a forum administrator, a gross abuse of their position. It is also a gross breach of trust between a forum user and the forum.
This is particularly ironic considering that stuffiminto.com claims to be:
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Stuffiminto.com’s immediate plans are to develop and launch the stuffiminto.com website, building a very unique and rapidly growing online community, replacing a lot of redundancy in online communities / social networking sites on the web today.
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And the terms of service for the cruising.stuffiminto.com forum clearly states:
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Note that entering your email address will not leave you open to 'spam', as you can choose to hide it from other board users. You'll probably be able to allow other registered users to contact you via email, but the system won't display your email address to them unless you give permission.
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I'd also point out that most of my posts there were on-topic, and I tried to be a good contributor to his site, inspite of Sully's refusal to answer a simple question about why SanderO was given such preferential treatment. BTW, he never did say why SanderO wasn't banned for his spamming the forums.
I'd also point out that as of this posting, they have not deleted my posts per my wishes, even though they were the ones who violated the terms of service first, not me.
To give you an idea of the maturity level of their forum administration, this is the message I received when I tried to view the forum after being banned.
Apparently, their forum owner/administrator doesn't feel bound by the terms of service agreement to respect the privacy of members....so join at your own risk.
Update:
Sean Sullivan sent me an e-mail. I have confirmed that this email address is legitimate, via a google search, as one having been used by Sullivan in the past. My google search for it turned up a few things, including this
comment about his selling a Hirsch 45' sailboat, which he mentioned owning on
Stuffiminto.com. The chances of two Sean Sullivans owning a Hirsch 45' sailboat in the New York/New Jersey area at the same time is rather neglible.
Here is the raw source of the e-mail, with my e-mail info redacted.
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[personal information removed by moderators to comply with SailNet forum rules]
Subject: I'll come for a visit
To: ************
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Sailingdog-
I have some free time coming up and I'm thinking of coming down to visit you in MA. I'm only a few hours away.
You talk about lawyers and things like that. I talk about baseball bats.
Want to cause trouble on the internet? You're going to have to deal with it in real life.
I found out where you are. It may not be as pleasant as your visit with Guiletta, but we'll "catch up"
Your pal- Sully
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The e-mail appears to be from a Yahoo.com webmail address, but was sent from an originating IP address, 68.246.169.146, that appears to be from a Sprint AirCard, since its whois entry comes up with:
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OrgName: Sprint PCS
OrgID: SPCS
Address: 12502 Sunrise Valley Dr
City: Reston
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 20191
Country: US
NetRange: 68.240.0.0 - 68.247.255.255
CIDR: 68.240.0.0/13
NetName: SPRINT-WIRELESS
NetHandle: NET-68-240-0-0-1
Parent: NET-68-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: OSSCDNS01.SPCSDNS.NET
NameServer: OSSCDNS02.SPCSDNS.NET
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 2003-07-17
Updated: 2004-03-25
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However, most of the e-mail header information could be spoofed by someone computer literate enough. I doubt that Sean Sullivan is, due to his troubles with coding and such on his forum.
While I can not confirm that this e-mail was actually sent by Sean Sullivan, but feel that it is genuine, as the e-mail address has been confirmed as one used by him for over two years. Activity on this e-mail address traces back to at least 2006. I do not consider his IP address or e-mail address private information, since there was no agreement of privacy between him and I regarding this e-mail, and I can not even be sure it is him. His previous language and behavior has shown him to be psychologically unstable IMHO, and this would be something he would stoop to doing.
There is a major difference between my posting this e-mail and his posting of my e-mail address, in that I did not have a privacy agreement, he and stuffiminto.com did, which he violated.
Summary:
Basically, we've got an e-mail with a definite threat posted using an e-mail address that has been historically linked to Sean Sullivan, as the number of people who own a Hirsch 45' sailboat that are named Sean Sullivan is probably fairly low.
[content removed by forum moderators to comply with SailNet rules]. He had a contractual obligation to protect my e-mail address, and intentionally revealed it—and he's mad at me??? I'm not the one who was being a [content removed by forum moderators to comply with SailNet rules]
What is really worrying is that his new website
Online Jobs, Resume and Career Forum with Job Listings - Powered by vBulletin is likely to have even more sensitive information on it, since it is for job hunters and companies. It would be a prime way for someone with no ethics to gather enough information to steal a lot of identities—becoming basically a phishing site. Given Sean Sullivan's [content removed by forum moderators to comply with SailNet rules], I worry about what would happen to anyone who signs up on that site.
I also take threats of physical violence very seriously. I have reported this to both the local police, the FBI, and several other organizations. If he's adult enough to make threats like that, he's adult enough to take the consequences.
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