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More information about the identity of the Internet commenter known as Elmer Fudd has been revealed, though the person's name is still unknown.
Elmer Fudd's e-mail address is now known and it may take more legal action to find out who that e-mail belongs to.
More subpoenas will have to be issued, this time to the Internet service provider who can put a name to the alias Elmer Fudd.
This all started back in August when someone who identified himself as Elmer Fudd posted comments to stories on the Sun News web site.
Those comments claimed sheriff's deputies had raided the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce's office and seized their computers.
But that raid never happened, and the chamber sued Elmer Fudd for defamation.
Before the suit could go forward, the chamber had to find Elmer Fudd's identity.
Thursday, a judge ordered the Sun News to release information about Elmer Fudd and what the Sun News revealed Friday is that Elmer Fudd's e-mail address is noadtax@gmail.com.
The chamber's lawyers still don't know who that e-mail address belongs to, but they'll keep trying to find out.
"We thought that we would need to take additional steps to determine who this person is. In fact we addressed this with the court yesterday and the judge's order does address this, and says that we can go out and take additional steps, issue additional subpoenas to look into this a little more," said David Slough, a Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce attorney.
Information from an unrelated lawsuit has linked former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride to Elmer Fudd.
Also, McBride heads an organization called No Ad Tax Myrtle Beach.
NewsChannel 15 tried to reach McBride Friday to ask him if he's Elmer Fudd, but he didn't return our calls. We've asked him that question a number of times in the past, all he ever said was, "I look forward to finding out who Elmer Fudd is."
So now the chamber's lawyers will have to issue more subpoenas, this time to Google, the Internet giant that runs g-mail.
Lawyers say it could be another month or more before the subpoenas work their way through the legal system.
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Anonymous poster identity revealed
The Sun News is reporting on its web site that the anonymous web commenter known as Elmer Fudd has an email address of noadtax@gmail.com. The paper reports that it does not have a name for that person.
A person who called himself Elmer Fudd posted comments on stories to the Sun News web site, claiming that the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce had been raided by Horry County sheriff's deputies. The sheriff's office denied the raid and the chamber sued Elmer Fudd for defamation. Elmer Fudd's identity had to be revealed before the suit could go forward.
A judge signed an order Friday compelling The Sun News to release information about Elmer Fudd's identity.
NewsChannel 15 continues to follow the story and will have more on CarolinaLive.com as it becomes available.
