Someone PLEASE settle an argument for me

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Ok. First, I've been lurking here for a LONG, LONG time. I'm looking forward to getting back in the swing of things with the new album but anyway. I need you guys to please help me settle an argument.

I don't know if any of you participate in the newsgroup alt.music.fleetwood-mac.net, but there has been an upraor over presale passwords. Allow me to give a brief recap.

Basically, some people were discouraged that people were distributing the internet presale password amongst themselves. I casually remarked that I received the internet presale password in my Pittsburgh Penguins (National Hockey League Team)'s official newsletter. The internet presale password was included as a cross promotional blurb. It has been a long-standing tradition, as well as being good business sense, for the Pittsburgh Penguins to promote events in the arena where it calls home (the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh).

After I casually mentioned that, I was FLAMED to no end by some of the other participants on the newsgroup. The posters in question called me a "thief" and "immoral." They called me these things because I apparently "ripped off everyone who joined the fan club by stealing the password."

After some jockeying back and forth, my interest was genuinely piqued as to just how the internet presale was/is run. I emailed the Mellon Arena last night, asking them exactly that question. how is the internet presale run in regards to the fanclub? Are the Internet Presale password and the fanclub password two different things? Here's the respone I received:

Jason - We are comfortable in this case speaking on behalf the tour management for Fleetwood Mac because we had similar discussions on this topic last week. The pre-sale that ran from Wednesday, March 5 through Wednesday, March 12 was exclusive to members of the Mellon Arena CyberClub and friends & corporate partners of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The password for this pre-sale was, indeed, entirely separate from the fan club pre-sale, which ran from Thursday, March 13 - Friday, March 14. Also, the tickets that were available to the Arena/Penguins users and the fan club users were in different areas of the Arena. While all price levels were available to all users, prime seating areas of the Arena were held back and only opened to the fan club users, as they paid a premium membership fee for such a privilege. Any issues that Fleetwood Mac Fan Club members have with the pre-sale handling can be directed to this website and we'll take care of them. Thanks for your patience and we hope you enjoy the show!

So as you can see, the internet presale which I used and the fanclub presale passwords (I've never taken two steps towards the fanclub) are two different things entirely and as such are treated as two different presales. After showing this to the poster in question, he/she still refuses to back off of calling me immoral or a thief.

Will someone (marty I'm looking in your omnipotent direction ) PLEASE back me up here?

Why cant' this person understand that the internet presale and fanclub presale are two different things? Do the fine people here understand this?

The funny thing is I used the internet presale password to get the last level seating in the house

Thanks in advance for the replies

-Jason-