@ Amanda : I really like Dave Allen , I wish I could get hold of the series ” Dave Allen at large” , I have watched all of them in the seventies .
Remember the sketch where the preacher ( Dave Allen) was explaining that in hell there will be crying and gnashing of teeth, and a toothless old man jumped up saying that he has no teeth? “TEETH WILL BE PROVIDED ” was the preacher’s immediate reply.
BTW : there are qty 4 John Schembri’s in Zurrieq. I don’t want my particulars to be easily available to every Tom Dick and Harry , I don’t want to be popular like Daphne is. But I am not afraid of using my name , I now know that Daphne won’t harm my property , or pester me on the phone …… she promised {:-)
Some months ago I wrote a joke about Daphne on the Times’ comments , she did not react, on this blog .
I hate writing under a pen name like for example Mario (amrio) is doing . Come to think of it; if I was up to something I wouldn’t have used my name and email address in the first place.

(Daphne – I’ll oblige about the capers and pistaccios, but on the magazine, not here.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IfoUM6a4bA&feature=related

Principles of Data Protection

The Nine Principles of ‘good information handling’

The controller shall ensure that:

Personal data is processed fairly and lawfully;
Personal data is always processed in accordance with good practice;
Personal data is only collected for specific, explicitly stated and legitimate purposes;
Personal data is not processed for any purpose that is incompatible with that for which the information is collected;
Personal data that is processed is adequate and relevant in relation to the purposes of the processing;
No more personal data is processed than is necessary having regard to the purposes of the processing;
Personal data that is processed is correct and, if necessary, up to date.
All reasonable measures are taken to complete, correct, block or erase data to the extent that such data is incomplete or incorrect, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed;
Personal data is not kept for a period longer than is necessary, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed.

Mentally or not ,you compared the data from two different sources and used it for your personal ends.
I thought that ” comment” on the MIOS website was meant for on line readers to comment.
You interpret things to suit your argument .The editor should have passed to you my comment with my name only. I gave my details to the editor for authenticity purposes only.
I know that it takes a lot of restraint and self control not to write anything about what you were suspecting, but I feel that my privacy has been violated by your prying.
But this is Malta anyone can get away with murder.

(Daphne – Oh for heaven’s sake, John. You really need to get out a bit more. If you send ME your name and email address, it stands to reason that I’m going to see it. And if you send it to my editor, and you know that editors show their staff and their contributors any correspondence about them (if you didn’t, you should have done), then it stands to reason that I am going to see that too. You had a simple solution: to tell me anything you wanted to say about me, rather than trying to go behind my back and getting angry/feeling foolish because it didn’t work. Come on, forget it.)

[Daphne – That’s not posting a comment on a website; that’s using the website to send an email. The two are quite different. I did not compare personal data from this site with an email you sent to the newspaper for which I work. I didn’t have to, because your ‘personal data’ (name and email address) pop up in front of me here umpteen times a day and are engraved on my vision. You say you do not owe me any explanations and yet you are hugely on the defensive with your excuses, having realised that you have made a fool of yourself in trying to ‘report’ me to my editor behind my back while posting several comments daily here. Was this one of the tricks and methods you learned at tal-muzew, by any chance?]

[Daphne – Oh dear, you’re not a very good fibber, are you? You can’t have posted the comment on the newspaper’s website because the newspaper’s website doesn’t have a comment-posting facility. I didn’t expect you to copy me. I merely thought it was strange that amidst the plethora of comments you post here, you didn’t post that one – which was sent, incidentally, long after my article was posted here (emails carry the time and date). It is normal practice for editors to show their writers letters or messages about them which they have received. It’s not just good manners, but it allows the writers to append an explanation, add a comment or refute an accusation. I don’t usually bother doing any of that. Yes, you’re right: there is a Data Protection Act and it applies to people who work for the company, who are prevented from revealing details to other people who do not work for the company. I work for the newspaper, and the law prevents me from revealing your details to others who don’t (not that I would have any interest in doing so, anyway). It does not prevent my editor, who works for the same company, from showing them to me – not least because the matter concerns me directly. Don’t worry; I won’t be setting fire to your front door or ringing you and cutting at 2am. I’m not that kind of person.]

[Daphne – Because correspondence about me is forwarded to me. And the email carried your email address and your name. So it’s not a conclusion, but a fact.]

“Can Daphne please tell us what relevance this article has to us here in Malta? Are there any Adventists here in Malta making a night vigil in a ‘gas’ station?”

Instead of using such contorted and indirect means to find out what relevance I think this has to life in Malta, why didn’t you just post your enquiry here, along with your other 20-odd comments daily? Just wondering….

There may be no Seventh Day Adventists in Malta, but there are plenty of bible-bashers and others who take religion literally. I imagine that you are one of them.