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Re: [Boitano] Re: help stop a bb fan fraud

You have to go into your yahoo membership (mygroups) and unsub from the
group. Whoever the owner of this group is could also do it, but I'm not
sure who that is, so it woud be easier (and quicker) to unsub yourself.


Gail
anthrogail1@...

>From: aklein@...
>Reply-To: Boitano@yahoogroups.com
>To: Boitano@yahoogroups.com
>CC: boitano@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Boitano] Re: help stop a bb fan fraud
>Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:28:57 -0500 (EST)
>
>Hi,
>
>My friend accidentally signed me up for this mailing list, but I'd like to
>unsubscribe. How do i do that?
>
>Thanks.
>
> > bbtano,
> >
> > i really don't mean any offense, but that's a strange answer: "I¹d
> > recommend ignoring her and if it gets bad enough that Brian wants to
> > do something about it, then let him handle it."
> >
> > hopefully brian would never have to deal with something so ridiculous
> > himself (and thank *god* he probably doesn't really know this girl),
> > but i think it's fair for an honest fan to want to stop someone else
> > from spreading blatant lies about the man. my intention was either
> > to take her aside and use a basic bit of evidence to say "look, i've
> > taken time to research this through legitimate sources and i can
> > prove that even the most elementary things you claim to know about
> > this man are false, so cut it out" or else i was going to show the
> > people who have been convinced by her deception(s) that she is wrong
> > about even the most proveable details, and therefore certainly the
> > wilder things she says (and they are pretty ugly or i wouldn't be
> > bothered with this) can't be believed.
> >
> > i think it's worse to let people flatly believe terrible things about
> > a person than to investigate a few relatively neutral facts to prove
> > an untruth. i wouldn't think his wife's first name would be a
> > closely guarded secret, but regardless, it isn't in the spirit of
> > disrespecting his privacy that i've asked for the information.
> >
> > i can ignore her just fine, but it's the people who are buying her
> > stories that i am concerned about.
> >
> > sorry if i offended anybody!
> >
> > wendy
> >
> >
>





Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:07 pm

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hi. i'm a long time fan of bb, but have never cared much about prying into his personal life. i work with a number of skating fans, and one of these women has ...
wen_bax
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Dec 24, 2006
12:27 pm

I¹d recommend ignoring her and if it gets bad enough that Brian wants to do something about it, then let him handle it. If you try to obtain accurate ...
bbtano
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Dec 24, 2006
2:37 pm

bbtano, i really don't mean any offense, but that's a strange answer: "I¹d recommend ignoring her and if it gets bad enough that Brian wants to do something...
wen_bax
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Dec 24, 2006
7:47 pm

Hi, My friend accidentally signed me up for this mailing list, but I'd like to unsubscribe. How do i do that? Thanks....
aklein@...
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Dec 24, 2006
8:45 pm

You have to go into your yahoo membership (mygroups) and unsub from the group. Whoever the owner of this group is could also do it, but I'm not sure who that...
GAIL TURLEY
anthrogail
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Dec 25, 2006
11:14 pm

There will always be fans who say things that aren¹t true about celebrities. They do it for the shock value mostly, but also just to drag down celebrities...
bbtano
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Dec 25, 2006
6:39 am

The only thing that would concern me about any of this is the fans that are not very knowledgeable about Brian might believe some things that may not be true....
GAIL TURLEY
anthrogail
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Dec 25, 2006
11:28 pm
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