Posted by bryan legg on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Message-From-Chris-Bentley-tp1506442p1506457.html

carly, please forgive me for using your message but I am tired of being called cynical among other names. I have been a fan of UFO since I was 10 yrs old. It came on at 3am and I even got in trouble a few times for watching it. Two years ago it came on DVD and I have watched all the episodesat least twice since then. I joined this group because it seemed the mostreliable UFO club on the net. I had NEVER heard of fanderson. I see a message that two actors who were in UFO died at the same time. One from a mysterious ailment. I look at the site and it says they died on June 8, 2105. Well that is 100yrs in the future. All of us will be dead in 2105! How am I supposed to know that fanderson does all their dates that way? So yes I think someone is having a bit of fun at my expense. I ask for confirmation from a reliable source like a newspaper. I get the Telegraph which I have to join to get the story. I see in a James Bond fandom magazine the story that Ed and Mike
died but again the source is fanderson. I am very cynical when I read strange information on the net.
It would be different if the net were 100% reliable but everyone knows that more hoaxes and scams are perpetrated on the net than anywhere else. Have you heard about adults that pretend to be kids on the net, meet the kids, and then the real kids end up missing or dead. How about the little girl who goes to the computer in the middle of the night and looks up white horse and gets a pornographic site. Why did the parents leave the computer in stand bye mode. Alot of people get ripped off by ebay. I was charged twice for a "Titanic" membership. How about the email that says "you have won a million dollars" , you answer it and your computer goes nuts. Why? Because someone planted a virus on your computer. You can be anyone you want to be on the computer and fool millions of people . I say I am 43. How do you know I am not 12 and love fooling adults. You don't. All I am issomeone who types in when I want to talk to people.  

carlyjward <[hidden email]> wrote:
--- In [hidden email], Marc Martin wrote:

<< I suppose that some newcomers in the fan community do not realize
that Fanderson is considered a reliable source of information. Before
the Fanderson story broke, I had already received this news from
somewhere else, and emailed Chris Bentley to confirm if it was true.
This was because I felt that if Chris thought it was true, then it
must be true. This is based on my being a Fanderson member for around
15 years, and not recalling any retracted stories in FAB NEWS (other
than the annual April Fools story). >>

Perhaps for a few people, wanting to believe it is a hoax, no matter
how unpleasant or inappropriate, was better than having to accept it
was true. I am sure it should not be viewed as an attack on the
integrity of Fanderson generally or Chris Bentley individually. It's
just... upset people not *wanting* to believe the information. And we
all know the www doesn't always get things right.

With bad news, people may attack the messenger – maybe that happened
in a few cases - the main messengers being Fanderson and these lists.
News of a death produces different reactions in different people. In
this instance, perhaps some of the reluctance to believe the facts
stems from seeing the double announcement – the sad coincidence of
both men passing away within a few days of each other. One or other...
well, yes, people get older – it happens. But both of them is startling.

Carly







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