Why is Audiogon insisting on a verified physical address in order to post?

@wsrrsw 

Thanks for the clarification. I should have taken the time to look it up instead of relying on memory, but it still comes across despite the errors. 

All the best,
Nonoise

@wsrrsw

Groucho was like the Will Rogers or Mark Twain of his time and had that whip smart wit. When he hosted You Bet Your Life back in the golden days of Black & White, he’d call on audience members for some back and forth banter.

One time he had a man who said he had X number of kids and grandkids and Groucho said something like: "I love my cigar but I take it out of mouth every now and again."

I believe he was sued by the man for saying that.

All the best,
Nonoise

@uncledemp

I’m going to have to look that video up. 😀
Imagine if you gave them the old fashioned way of stating your phone number with a alphanumeric string of seven using the accepted call sign that the letters represented.

Ex: State 1,3,4,7,9. (commonly represented as ST-13479)

They’d be like deer frozen in the headlights.

All the best,
Nonoise

Imagine the questions some would ask if you mentioned that you "dialed" up a friend to talk to on your land line.

@wsrrsw My favorite Groucho Marx quote. 😀

I received two other notices of someone "mentioning" me only to discover deleted posts. Is this the audio equivalent of a drive-by? How brave and mature.

I remember a certain someone who's been repeatedly banned doing that as a matter of course from getting his posts taken down by the mods, which of course, led to his getting banned all over again.

History can repeat itself as well as rhyme. 👍

All the best,
Nonoise

Well, they are back in style.

I've been a member long enough to forget that I provided my complete address and  phone number. Common practice for some sites. No biggie. All I did was to go back to make sure the info was correct, click "update" and Bob's your uncle. 

For those paranoid about the gubermant prying into your private affairs, get real. Your private info has already been bought and traded by many companies and corporations already. 

I'm old enough to remember when sharing your private info required you signing a release (it was illegal to do so) and decades ago they reversed that, making you sign a document saying not to. Most companies never inform their clients and customers of data breaches save for the ones who truly care about their well being. Been that way, again, for decades.

What A'gon is doing is their best to keep the malcontents with bad intentions out. Nothing more. Trolls and scammers need to work in the shadows, avoiding sunshine and providing your address can be verified, defeating their desires, or at least make it harder for them.

All the best,
Nonoise