Good effort mate - hopefully someone can get hold of his profession details or a zip code as I've done the googling / white pages etc and got nowhere. Perhaps a good thing too - rather it be someone like you and members who know him much better than me in case he would like some privacy as is his perogative. Best, Sammy
At least we know Steve is just taking a break. I think he just about fell out of his chair when I told him I didn't hate Hamilton anymore, lol. I hope Ian is ok.
He has mentioned in previous threads that he uses his son's itunes/sky account to watch F1 and that his son lives in the UK. If you search the yellow pages there is a number for an Ian A in Campbell. Whitepages shows an Ian A that used to live in Campbell but has now moved to Salinas. Also good to hear that Krafty is ok
Good stuff regarding the white/yellow pages. I've no idea what his sons' name is, tried googling ian and F3/F1 etc too but no luck. That's the problem with having a common name (or advantage, pending how you look at it...)
There is a bunch of articles that mention Ian Anderson in the 80's. I guess that's him, right? If he is with his son abroad, he'd surely still check his email regularly? That doesn't make it less strange, does it? UK still hasn't Brexited from the internet, me thinks.
I was also thinking about it, if we know his real name and where he lives, it should be possible to find an adresse where we could reach him!? Ian is some sort of "Heart and Soul" of the f.1 section, i'm at least happy to see everyone trying and caring to find him.
I find the whole idea absolutely distasteful. The anonymity of people on this forum should be respected. I just cannot understand this insistance in contacting someone who stopped posting on this forum.
??? No one challenged anyone's right to privacy, no one spilled out private contact information. I think you are mistaken. We are worried about a person we call a friend. We want to make contact to make him know we care and to know for ourselves if he is alright/in need of any support. As posted numerously it is not someone that 'stopped posting'. It is, like said before, not at all what anyone would expect of Ian. I think it is a very healthy sign (and speaks volumes for our respect for Ian) that we do care.
I work with a different set of values. For me, trying to contact someone who has never signified he wanted to be approached is tantamout to intrusion in his privacy. Also, participants on a forum never become "friends". Here again, we must have a different opinion about friendship.
William, i can see your point and maybe you're correct from your point of view, but i (and many others) honestly believe that It was not Ian's intention to simply desapeer. The fact that he suffered some sort of accident just before he stopped posting has us much more worried. I also do not agree that forum participants never become friends. I have a couple of very good friends that i made in a similar forum, people that visit my house, that i go to lunch with, unfortunatly everyone in here is too far away, but this does not mean we don't fell some sort of "care and friendship" for each others. There are a couple of people i would gladly receive in my house and that i would love to show my country should they ever decide to come over...and sure they would feel the same.
He isn't anonymous though, he put his full name in his profile, shared his email addresses with some of us, and was very open about who he was and the career he's had. I have two email addresses for him (no reply on either). I really doubt Ian would mind us being concerned for his welfare and trying to find out if he's OK. All the best, Andrew.
Well, that's totally wrong. I have a half dozen good friends here that I meet/met regularly when I still lived in the NE of the USA. I still stay in regular, non FerrariChat contact with them, phone, emails, etc. I also have a couple of people here that I've NEVER met that I consider good friends, and know if I needed an assist, they'd be there to help me, as I would them. Just ask SFUMATO and dstacy if we're friends. I have dozens of casual friends here. People I've met, done favors for or vice/versa. It's a community here. That's part of the reason folks are so spooked by Rob selling to a bigger company. So, I guess we do have VERY different approaches to our online behaviors. D
I didn't visit Fchat for six months and none of you jerks came looking for me! Seriously though, it's a web site. The man can come and go as he pleases. If he comes back, he comes back. If he doesn't, he doesn't. Maybe he's out playing Pokemon Go.
If people think someone who participated every day and exhibited above average intelligence and far more patience than the average person got upset by the idiocy here, then your thinking is flawed. I'll just say what everyone is dancing around - we're afraid he is seriously ill or has passed away. The last time someone disappeared completely from a closed group I was in, her husband posted two weeks later that she had died. And for the record, every single one of my close author friends are people I met online first and later in person.
William, you can well agree to disagree. You have made your point and it is obvious that a great of people here think that you err. Jana is absolutely right with what she said above.
Don't worry William, if you disappear and anyone shows any concern, I'll get Andrew to ban them for being facet..... Oh I can't remember how to spell it, pretentious!
Contact info for an "Ian Anderson" in Campbell, Ca. This location cross referencing in Spokeo says he's 57 years old. You have a PM
