The fol­low­ing is a reply to the mes­sage quoted inline below, posted on my con­tact form, with a return email address clearly not likely to be used for any­thing else but the pur­pose of ensur­ing anonymity in fur­ther cor­re­spon­dence. As stated, with some­thing this seri­ous I don’t think anonymity has its place, and I’m dis­re­gard­ing the mes­sage unless fur­ther con­tact is made.

I’m aware that he uses another name on occa­sion (he’s answered the phone using the other name — which I don’t recall — and I’ve also seen it on quotes and invoices, etc.), although whether that’s his “real” name and William is not I didn’t know. Hav­ing said that, is it of con­se­quence? Yes, he is still work­ing at the school. I’m not par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in fur­ther con­tact unless you come out from the shroud of anonymity you cur­rently hide behind, sim­ply for the rea­son that any infor­ma­tion you could pro­vide I sim­ply would not trust unless I knew who you were. When I pub­lished that let­ter, there was no degree of anonymity in its form, and it was hosted on a web­site where my name, address, and tele­phone num­ber are all dis­played promi­nently on the con­tact page. Unless you wish to meet sim­i­lar stan­dards of dis­clo­sure, please refrain from future cor­re­spon­dence on this matter.

This response, as well as your orig­i­nal mes­sage, will be posted on my web­site in the inter­ests of transparency.

Regards,
Joshua Street

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:49 +1000, William McCor­mack wrote:

I am inter­ested to know if William McCor­mack still works at your school. If so please reply to the email address I have given and let me know. I have got some very inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion about ‘William’ McCor­mack that I would like to share with you. Did you know that William is in fact not his real name? It gets a lot bet­ter than this…

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