> boatrocker replied:
>
> > Employers and clients have connected me to a past screen
> name.
>
> > ...I routinely check for newly-registered domains as part
> of my competitive marketing efforts.
>
> > Sorry, my ability to participate further on this board
> requires complete anonymity. Not even a hint.
>
> Sorry, but each of your posts so far have really lit up my
> onboard crap detector. Being in public relations and
> marketing myself, I know the power of seeding boards with
> stray information in order to create ... well, "buzz."
>
I'm a firm believer in taking everything with a grain of salt and being at least a little suspicious of anything I read, especially online, but you're reading *way* too much into all this. With all due respect to you, all the folks at radio-info, and everyone else reading this, I'm not sure this is the first place I'd turn if I wanted to prime the pump with some planned leaks. There are at least a dozen calls I'd make first before trying to get anything off the ground by seeding here (note the outpouring of indifference to my original post). I like the "buzz" pun/callback, though. Nice.
> Let me just make sure that all of this is clear:
>
> * Your (radio related?) employers and clients were dictating
> which screen name you used previously on this radio-related
> board.
>
Wow, that is so totally *not* what I said. (Go back and read it again.) I had posted some (unbeknownst to me at the time) sensitive and privileged information, passed on to me by a colleague. He, his employer, and a mutual friend were a bit peeved about the leak, and there were further repercussions. His boss asked me point blank if I was the one that posted it. Rather than trying to weasel out of it, I confessed, begged for forgiveness and promised it wouldn't happen again. As a result, I thought it best to disassociate myself from that screen name (lest more stuff be tied back to me) and start fresh (and with a renewed policy of making sure anything that is passed on to me is OK to post.) And, yes, the employers and clients I'm refering to are broadcasters.
> * You check radio-related domain names as part of your
> "competitive marketing efforts."
Yeah, so? I make money by providing services. If I can get in the door first, I've got a huge advantage. Following up on newly-registered domains is one way of getting the jump on my competitors. Again, your point?
> This led you to a domain
> name that may/may not be related to a fairly obscure
> Bonneville press release related to a news programming
> initiative.
If by "fairly obscure" you mean "there's a link to it on their homepage," then, yeah, OK, I'll give you that one.
> So you decided to sign on under a new handle to
> bring this quickly to everyone's attention.
After sitting on it for a couple days, making calls, asking around, digging and digging and coming up empty, yeah, I thought I'd ask here to see if anybody had any clues they could offer to help us piece things together, whether it leads to a new station here or in some other market (or not at all). That doesn't seem all that odd to me. And, yes, I *did* feel a need to begin using a new screen name starting with this thread, for the reasons above. Sorry to confound the conspiracy-theorists, but there was no motive other than that.
> * You can post on this board (under the apt "boatrocker"
> handle), yet you require *complete* anonymity -- "not even a
> hint."
>
I'm not sure what you're trying to suggest here. There are no rules that require that I make my identity known to the community. To protect my livelihood, yes, it's all or nothing. Either I'm anonymous or I'm gone. And I now know that I have to be more careful about posting things that could be linked back to me.
And, honestly, I didn't even fully realize the irony of the new screen name until your first response. It was intended to reflect my attitude while I'm on the clock.
> Just for the sport of it, how about pointing out some of
> your previous posts on this board that contributed "credible
> information," as you called it.
>
Well, think about it. I'm trying to disassociate myself from that old screen name. By providing information about my previous posts, it'll be pretty easy to do a search and figure out what that old name was thereby linking the old name to the new one and, completely undoing what I'm trying to do.
