Today I just got the transcript of when the detective interviewed me for not registering my email accounts (long story that I am not going to go into). I notice several point of contentions. One is the existence of emails that I haven't used for 15 years and are most likely inactive (like my yahoo account from 2002). I stated several times in the interview that I did not use them (I didn't mention was that the last time I did use them was prior to me having to register them).
The main account however is the Big Closet account. The detective maintains that it is an email account because people can leave me messages and I can reply. I figure that since all the messages are out in the open that it is not an email, but rather a message board and I made that point. The detective however was unrelenting and arrested me any way.
The email that I do have through this site... [email protected] is registered however. But I don't know how to show that they are tied together. I think we went to the Jolie system around January and had something else before that, but I can be wrong.
I need someone who has some computer intelligence to tell me, technologically wise, is Big Closet an email website? I am starting to get sick over this.
News on the other front. Going over the transcript, I think the detective eluded to my then roommates putting illegal files on my computer. She was trying to get me to admit to the fact, but since I didn't do anything, I wasn't going to admit to it. She mentioned that they found one image of a naked boy. During the interview, I doubted her honesty because I found it hard to believe someone could be so vindictive. But after having so much money and property stolen from me, I live in fear. I don't think that the detective really cares about guilt or innocence, nor the prosecutor for that matter. I think they care about their arrest and conviction rate. That's the only way I can see why this case about me having emails is about to go to trial. (I will most likely take a plea even though I don't think they have a shred of evidence against me and that their major argument is flawed. I can't see risking over 5 years in prison if they offer me probation. If my lawyer can't get the case thrown out, I am not letting 12 people who have been inundated with how evil sex offenders are decide my life).
Thank you.
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Katie Contact Erin
as she can tell you personally how BigCloset is registered and whether the server on which BigCloset resides is considered a email service or general web server.
Sephrena
Katie's problems
Little Katie has been in contact with me for weeks on this. What someone needs is to contact those officious morons heads with some coconuts.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Drupal
The software used, albeit with a cusomised front end, is Drupal. It is a Content Management System (CMS) that is readily available to anyone who wants to run a blog, news site, club/society site or indeed a story site such as BCTS. Other CMS programs are available, I must have used most of them on my webspace.
The direct messaging and blog functions can be open, restricted or disabled. These are features and not the main rationale of a CMS. In BCTS terms, direct messaging and blogs are only available to registered members (unless the current policy varies with that statement!) It is therefore impossible under those conditions, for an unregistered person to correspond privately with any registered members. By definition that is not an email system as defined by the ITU. Nor can a registered member send a private message to anyone outside the board. QED.
A similar situation might be Twitter. There is a Direct Message facility but this is defined as an IM - Instant Messaging - system.
So, the issue might be the definition of email. Ask the suits what definition they are using.
Definitions of email are available at:
https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=e+mail&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=...
Hope this helps
Shiraz
As Shiraz has already stated
No, bigclosetr.us is not an email service. The closest thing to email that you could call it would be a registration required private bulletin board system. That's not entirely accurate, as the bulk of the information that is posted is viewable by unregistered users as well as registered users, but it's close.
The only email interaction with the outside world is a notification if a registered user has left you an update. Even the system itself only interacts with emails during initial registration of the user account, and to notify the user of a change of their account (new private message)
The messages themselves are basically the same as 'comments' that can be left on a moderated blog post. Note that the side section where those are located is called "Messages", not E-Mail.
I would hope that you've been recording the interviews with the police and court system for yourself. That can be used in any appeal, as well as to challenge bias.
In other words, it is not an 'email system'. I run several email systems - those are open accounts that will take information from a registered user and send it to _anyone_, as well as take information from _anyone_ and send it to a registered user. As this system is _incapable_ of doing either of those, it fails the definition.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Is Big Closet an E-mail site
Why do they not visit Big Closet and end the confusion
May Your Light Forever Shine
They did, Stan
They are so ignorant that they think they have proved it by visiting the place.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
As screwed up as this sounds...
I almost wonder if part of this might be the way the law is worded could be tying their hands.
Let's remember that a minor can take a picture of themselves and can be charged with child pornography and some have been.
I imagine there might be similar goofy things in the law around.
All this being said I hope you fight it kicking and screaming. You get that label stamped on your record you might as well live under a bridge or out in the country with NO houses around because that's about the only way you'll be allowed to live, not being near kids.
i hope it works out hon
I'm praying for you.
Private ??
Bc has the ability to send and receive private messages. This falls into the category of email on a limited scale.
Dayna
The simple answer
is probably not simple. From memory the AG eecides what you need to register and we really need to see that to be sure.
But the intention of the act is to make you identifiable to website owners/providers when you try and register with them, and BCTS is not an email account in that sense. There is no [email protected]
However that act could mean you needed to register your BCTS account name. It depends on the AG's decision. In that case, even though the detective might not know what the hell they are talking about, you might be in the wrong.
But again, if the police aren't sure what is required, the AG has failed to make the requirements clear and known as the act requires so the law fails on constitutional grounds. (Get a lawyer before arguing that though)
email or not
if the private messaging system here can be considered an email, site would depend on what definition they use.
while it certainly is no mail service like hotmail & co. on the other hand, it's similar to using the web interface for hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail or all the other mail services.
but if they want to include any and all sites that have some sort PM system, that would cover 99% of the web. signed up to leave a comment on a newspaper website? most of those have some sort of PM system, too.
as a matter of fact, with facebook, twitter and some other services, there's not even a need to sign up to third party sites. simply log in with your facebook account. going by their reasoning, you'd be automatically member of all those sites, even if you never been there.
By their definition...
Every single forum / message board / bulletin board on the 'net that has the capability of private messaging would be considered an email service!
Then again, it doesn't exactly help matters that the world's largest social network (the book of faces) has blurred the distinction by offering everyone an email address (presumably including the several million pseudonymous / baby / pet / gaming accounts!) which is tied into their internal messaging system.
But as has been said before, on BCTS (like almost every other system that offers private messages), the messages themselves are strictly contained within the system, can only be sent and received by registered members, and can only be sent and received on the site itself (no external access via third party applications - which makes them even more secure than social network DMs/PMs).
Besides which, PMs don't conform to RFC 5322, doesn't implement SMTP / IMAP / POP, and doesn't use MTAs or MDAs. An anlogue comparison: email is like writing a message and sending it through the mail / post; PMs are like going to a central building, writing a message, posting it in the other person's box there, then they come to the building, open up their mailbox and read it. The messages never leave the building.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Errrm....
Just to throw another question into the mix, what is a registered email address and why do you have to register it in the first place??
I've got numerous email addys but I don't think any of them are registered, are things different this side of the pond? (I'm English)
Just wondering
Sammi
She's in a situation where
She's in a situation where she's required to notify the relevant authorities of any email addresses/services she uses. They're challenging her on the grounds of not registering BigCloset.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
yeah
Legal issues and given that its an election year, the powers that be tend to go overboard to prove that they are doing their jobs so they get that vote in November. At least that's how I'm seeing this.