Did you get e-mail from ThrillNetwork?

Rollercoaster.com was purchased by Robert Coker a while after it closed, and nothing ever happened to it. I wouldn't exactly call that "operated by thrillnetwork".

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"We find that people don't pay any attention to what's underneath the ride."--SFMM Rep discussing Scream! as quoted in AT

ThrillNetwork never even came about until after Robert Coker left ThrillRide. Saying that email addresses were *compiled* from major coaster sites is just the nice way of saying that they were harvesting email addys.

No one seems to see that most people who *didn't* sign up for TN and have relatively new email addys (for the sake of running away from spammers) that they've only used HERE (and some not even then) says something totally different.

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drcoaster said:
I believe rollercoaster.com, thrillride, and some other domains/sites were at some point affiliated if not operated by thrillnetwork, he is calling these sites "major coaster sites" ..

But you can read it how ever you desire... and so can I.


"major coaster sites and Rollercoaster.com..."

Wow, I'm trying not to call you names. I really am. Between the black-and-white statement and the hundreds of people here who've not signed up for any other site other than CB (my wife included... are you now suggesting she's lying to me?), I find it astonishing that you can even continue posting.

Whatever dude... go over to TN and tell them how great they are, and what a man Westerman is for his lack of direct replies to my direct e-mail and the direct questions we've all asked him.

Silence speaks volumes...

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
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You know one thing out of all this... this proves Jeff is a bully. His opinion rules over others, and he even publicly demonstrates that he doesn't care that others get spammed, since it is he who has programmed this site, and it is he who has forced members to opt-out of publicly displaying their e-mail addresses.

You know, Jeff told me that I need to have a beer with him to get to know him. If anyone wants to get to know me, all they have to do is say "what's up?" Best of all, it's free, and you don't risk getting pulled over for DUI on the way home for having too much beer (think of the costs of getting to know Jeff then)? Free over several thousand $$$ in fines, costs, and fees, plus a suspended license? Which would you choose?

This is getting funnier and funnier, and showing just how funny idiocy can be, especially when they have to resort to spies to find out what the staff are talking about on their site and mail bombing. With that, you just rendered what TN did moot because of your own actions. You're down to their level and possibly below with those actions.

So, maybe silence does speak volumes... maybe they are silent because Alex might be gone for the 4th, or maybe they are silent because they see what childish actions you all have accomplished? Ever think of that?

CoasterBuzz... Portal to idiocy
*** This post was edited by Ripper CJ 7/4/2003 12:34:52 AM ***

I know that I never signed up for ThrillNetwork.com. Also, I have not received an email from them.... yet, and I have also not posted on CBuzz in awhile thanks to an overwhelming amount of work, so this post is basically to see if I will receive the newsletter after writing a single post on this thread, basically verifying what everyone said about thrillnetwork harvesting emails. I will post another message whether I receive the newsletter.

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Ripper CJ said

...CoasterBuzz... Portal to idiocy
*** This post was edited by Ripper CJ 7/4/2003 12:34:52 AM ***

And once you leave, it'll go back to the Portal to the Thrill.

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Don't show up and make this about me. Everyone always wants to make things about me. About what a dick or egomaniac or whatever that I am. Stick the the issue. It's not about me. It's not about beer either, or the galactically stupid notion that people who enjoy beer drive drunk.

How many TN tools are going to show up to support "Da Theory" and ignore the question about why the addys were harvested in the first place. Everytime there's a hard question it degrades into a discussion about me and the intricacies about my testicular fortitude.

Move along...

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
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Then I guess you missed my first post? I did not just "show up". I'm not with TN (I don't even have an account with them)... I could care less about TN. I go where the discussion is good.

You should just drop the whole thing while you're ahead, Jeff. You never justified the actions of you or your members with the 300 spams to Alex as well as the threats of DoS, as well as having a spy on their site. Jeff, you are so low... you and your sites should be shut down, and maybe I will start with the methods that you used in order to try to get TN shut down.

If you can properly justify those actions of you and your members to me, right here, right now, I'll leave you alone. If not, maybe the FBI would be interested in you perhaps? After all, Mail bombing and intrusion are both criminal offenses last time I checked.
*** This post was edited by Ripper CJ 7/4/2003 1:11:06 AM ***

Ripper CJ said:
this proves Jeff is a bully. His opinion rules over others...since it is he who has programmed this site...he who has forced members to opt-out

Oh, come on. How close does he have to get? Just because he avoided the term 'Nazi' doesn't mean he hasn't walked all over Godwin's law. LOSER. DISQUALIFIED. Next?

-CO

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Um, you're obviously confused. I didn't mail bomb anyone. Since you're just here to troll... experience...

BAN HAMMAH! Toodles!

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
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Bahahahaha. You're almost as funny as 'Playa, except you get bonus points for being serious!

If you'd bother to read the thread (Oh, the irony!!) you'd have noted that nobody actually bothered to send Alex any spam, nor am I ever serious about anything. With that clever knowledge, and using your very own patented Leap-of-Logic technology (have a beer != DUI and thousands of dollars of fines), I'm sure you could've parsed that I was joking. I sure as Hell didn't DoS them because I had better, more exciting things to do -- like correct the Coasterbuzz Glossary for an hour or so. If someone else did, it's not Jeff's fault and it isn't mine, either.

I'm not making policy here, I'm enjoying my free time. Sheesh.

If Jeff or I or anyone else sees fit to be a fool, we're entitled. That doesn't make what really happened -- the invasion of my privacy and the unnecessary abuse of Jeff's site -- any less wrong.

Wow. Just wow. Funniest thing ever.

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--Maddie--
What do I Listen-To?
I am stereotypical.

Jeff's avatar
Will Dragster be open this weekend?

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
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Magic 8-Ball(tm) sez...

It will open when it opens.. c'mon, there's already 242.8 topics on this... use the search feature...

NEXT! ;) :) ;)

Which is neater, SFMM or Cedar Point?

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--Maddie--
What do I Listen-To?
I am stereotypical.

Funny you ban me... you can't keep a good man down. I guess when you get scared, you ban.

So you know, there's also the crime of being an accessory to the fact. The simple fact that you're fostering discussion and basically encouraging such behavior is enough. So yeah, that's why I am bring to light the problems. If you want to ban the good guy, so be it. Coasterbuzz will just go down on its own.

Go ride a coaster, and have a happy 4th and just forget about it.


Ripper CJ said:
Best of all, it's free, and you don't risk getting pulled over for DUI on the way home for having too much beer (think of the costs of getting to know Jeff then)? Free over several thousand $$$ in fines, costs, and fees, plus a suspended license? Which would you choose?

Uh-oh. In that case, I'm completely screwed. I had a whole pitcher (yes, pitcher, god bless the bar we went to after the Queensryche/Dream Theater show tonight) of Long Island Iced Tea(s) to my self tonight. I'm still feeling it. Nevermind we had a designated driver tonight, lock me up for life folks, because the Evil Liquor (tm) passed my lips!

But more seriously, I am SO amused by this whole thing, on both sides. In the grand scheme of things, yes, this was one more unsolicited email. Yes, we all get tons of them. But that's precisely why so many people are so upset -- people are fed up with the plague, and for once can figure out where it came from. Is it any surprise there's a backlash?

Why the hell do some people always reduce it to "Jeff's a bully"? All Jeff originally did was ask if anyone else had gotten the email. Any email bombs, etc., that have happened since then, have nothing to do with Jeff (or myself, or any of the other CB staff). Give me a frelling break. I don't give a rat's behind one way or the other, EXCEPT for the idea that a coaster site may have been harvesting email addresses. The question of "why" STILL remains unanswered. If it never gets answered, fine, I don't really care, but I also won't be visiting TN. I'm sure they don't care either, but as from my end that's their loss, not mine.


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--Greg, aka Oat Boy
My page
"Another visitor. Stay a while. Stay FOREVER!"

TTD will run this weekend. The Dippen Dots guy told me so. Right before he handed my my dots with a side of "SPAM".
This download will show you how much adware and spyware is on your computer. Trust me, you will be amazed at what you find. After you remove some of the crap off your systems you see the Jeff doesn't slam you with all the adds. It's a c|net site.

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html

*Sigh* Whatever happened to the good old days?

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Well, I used to be able to see TTD from my house, then I moved.
Life's not fair.

Which good old days? ;) The Coaster preservation thing, CPnut, etc...?

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- "I used to be in the audio/visual club, but I was kicked out because of my views on Vietnam........and I was stealing projectors" - Homer Simpson

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