I just received and email from some woman in Florida who got into my Photobucket account and saw pic's of an African hunting trip I took a couple years ago. She ridiculed me and said my head should be on a plaque. Obviously, I was a little taken back by the personal comments and realized my settings were "public" on the account. I thought public meant my friends I sent the photos to could access, not knowing other folks could also access my account. Those of you utilizing Photobucket may want to check your account settings so you to don't get harrassing emails.

Does Photobucket have a setting for allowing comments that you can turn off? Also have you made your email addr public, or is it Photobucket emailing you telling you that someone has commented?

You should be able to have public albums without anyone disturbing you with comments/emails.

Screw her.I would not be upset about what some twit says.I would probably post more pics .OB

Why not post her email address on every hunting forum you can find.

Postoak, your question is a good one. Photobucket sends me the email when a comment is made. My personal email is not made public. I googled the woman's name and she lives in Vero Beach Florida, is a musician and describes her work as "entrepreneur". In reality, she probably is unemployed. There are plenty of "small" people in this world and I usually don't get in a pissing contest with these folks. My inclination is to respond with vigor, but I made that mistake once with a liberal journalist and quickly discovered it wasn't the best thought-out idea considering the journalist buys ink by the 55 gallon drum and I had no legal ability to respond.

I got a similar kind of email a few years ago because of some of the pictures in my photobucket library. I sent a very polite and very carefully worded response back to the person...the jist of my email I sent was "I now know who you are and were you live by the information provided in the properties of your email, for a few dollars and a few minutes I could easily get a full report of virtually every detail of your life from any number of websites." this next part was the part that I was very carefull how I owrded it because I didn't want it to be a threat or even remotely sound like one..."I'm a gun owner and obviously have killed animals as proven by the pictures you are so offended by, how wise do you think it is to send an email such as you sent me to a stranger who is armed and a proven animal killer?"

I never got another email from this person again but I sure would have loved to seen the look on their face when they read my email.

Considering the number of unstable and mentally defective people in this world how wise is it to send unsolicited critical email to people who obviously have guns and who are proven killers(of animals).

Colin

I received a similar message for the first time a couple of weeks ago, in response to a photo of me hoisting a stringer of fish. The best part was the person left a bunch of negative comments on my blog clearly expecting they would be public, but I simply didn't publish them.

I sent them a polite email in response and haven't received anything back. I probably shouldn't have given them a minute of my time to begin with.

My blog is nothing but guns, hunting, and fishing so I suppose it was a matter of time 'til some bleeding heart felt offended by it. Did they really expect me to care? Talk about barking up the wrong tree!

Just use their email address to register them at some noxious website (that sells its email lists to everyone.)