Oh my, I just have to ramble here a bit after reading the posts.
Once, you posted....
" Even if I had done something wrong, which I haven't"
As I see it, no matter what the contents of the email was, or what your reasons were, it was not the right thing to do to use the email addresses at all. You probably innocently (without thinking) took advantage or ? of someones' mistake.
Why you cannot see it was wrong is hard for me to understand. The majority of the folks here say it was wrong, Matt (the owner of IHUB) says it was wrong. Morals? Integrity? Character? Ethics? Ones values?
Can you not see also how you are making yourself look bad by trying to defend your actions. I think you feel bad about it really and emotions have come into play.
Even if you just sent the words "Good Morning" in your emails, the act of using others' email addresses when they did not give YOU their email address to begin with is just not done.
It is hard to apologize in the position that you are in now after you have thrown out your defensive position, but I think that if you do, you just might earn back the respect that you might be losing in this battle with Matt and other respected posters.
I am sure that Jim is feeling badly about the whole incident and after all these posts on the subject he has to be feeling even worse than he did before. I know I feel badly as do many others, especially those on the email list who gave their email address to Jim exclusively. Do the feelings of these posters etc. not mean anything to you? Don't you want to be thought of well by others'? Posts reveal a lot about people, especially those of us who lurk more than post.
I think you do owe an apology first to Jim, and then to whomever you have offended.
As I have gone through my journey of life, more than 60 years now, I have always admired a person who could stand up and admit they were wrong.
Enough ramblings for now as I have to go make a pot roast and some banana creme pie for my company.
The best to you whatever you choose to do as you are the only one who will be left to deal with the consequences of your choices.
Post to be respected and missed when you no longer post....
I made it up from "Live to be respected and die to be regretted."
