Internet Trolls on discussion groups

[MaxPC]

It must be another MagnusFide who as an RVer with the same email address posting in Yahoo groups. He sounds like an interesting character - has a friend who is an expert on Catholicism even!

Could be. I met a Magnus a few years back at a campground who liked my email address. I still hear from him occasionally; he has a yahoo address so it could be him. I don't access yahoo groups. Too little time and too much fuss like social media.

So you let him use your email address? That's odd, you should be careful of who you let use your email address. Do you know if he is the same Maxfide on the "Covered Catholics Plain and Crunchy" group? or the Catholic Answers forum?

He doesn't use my email address, Wayne. He has a yahoo address which I don't have. What is this about?

[Wayne in Maine]

Could be. I met a Magnus a few years back at a campground who liked my email address. I still hear from him occasionally; he has a yahoo address so it could be him. I don't access yahoo groups. Too little time and too much fuss like social media.

So you let him use your email address? That's odd, you should be careful of who you let use your email address. Do you know if he is the same Maxfide on the "Covered Catholics Plain and Crunchy" group? or the Catholic Answers forum?

He doesn't use my email address, Wayne. He has a yahoo address which I don't have.

Ah yes, it is a Yahoo account (he was a member of a group I moderated), though it looks like he perhaps uses the same user name in both gmail and yahoo. Again, that's odd.

Were he and his wife dressed plain when you met him? In the forums he mentions that they do. That must have been an interesting meeting, you being a Plain Catholic. With all of his interest in Mennonites and Amish I'm surprised he never discovered MennoDiscuss or Mennonet.

What is this about?

Do you mean the topic?

[Neto]

It appears to me to be about a misunderstanding. Max, you said he liked your email address. It could easily sound like he started using it, when it is now clear (with your further responses) that he just used the same name as you do. For instance, when I started getting on different forums, I have always used Neto as my user name, but sometimes it is already taken. So on Ebay, I use The_Real_Neto. (Can you tell I was put out that I couldn't use 'Neto' as usual? Well, I just couldn't think of any other name to use.) Like people around her know me as 'Ernie', but there already is an 'Ernie' on MN, so I continue to use Neto. On another forum I use my full (Banawa) name, which is Eneto. (Neto is a nick name for Eneto.)

[Neto]

It appears to me to be about a misunderstanding. Max, you said he liked your email address. It could easily sound like he started using it, when it is now clear (with your further responses) that he just used the same name as you do, but on a different email provider. For instance, when I started getting on different forums, I have always used Neto as my user name, but sometimes it is already taken. So on Ebay, I use The_Real_Neto. (Can you tell I was put out that I couldn't use 'Neto' as usual? Well, I just couldn't think of any other name to use.) Like people around here know me as 'Ernie', but there already is an 'Ernie' on MN, so I continue to use Neto. On another forum I use my full (Banawa) name, which is Eneto. (Neto is a nick name for Eneto.)

[Wayne in Maine]

It appears to me to be about a misunderstanding. Max, you said he liked your email address. It could easily sound like he started using it, when it is now clear (with your further responses) that he just used the same name as you do.

Indeed this other magnusfide not only likes Max's email handle, he even likes Max's name - that's how he has introduced himself and occasionally uses as his signature line!

[joshuabgood]

I think a reasonable conclusion is that it is him.

[Neto]

I think a reasonable conclusion is that it is him.

I suppose that is possible. (I tend to be pretty trusting, at least until I run out of options.)

[Wayne in Maine]

I think a reasonable conclusion is that it is him.

I suppose that is possible. (I tend to be pretty trusting, at least until I run out of options.)

Trust, but verify.

[KingdomBuilder]

Have any CA's gotten into the private investigation business? I see possibilities...

[ohio jones]

Have any CA's gotten into the private investigation business? I see possibilities...

Well, we used to have the MennoDiscuss Board of Investigation (MDBI), and before that the MennoGoon[ie]s. At times it was more bluster than bloodhound, but once in a while serious sleuthing got done.