McKrackin
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Post by McKrackin on Feb 17, 2009 5:52:41 GMT -6
I noticed a mass email was sent to the members.
Sometimes this worries me.Email address can be sold.
I have lost a ton of useful emails this way as I dump the account when the Spam starts.
This forum account however is set up with a disposable email address.
I have a PREMIUM Yahoo account and have limitless disposable addresses.I just set one up and use it where ever.Each address is pushed to my REAL email address.Each is marked by a different color.When Spam starts,I just dump the disposable address and the problem is solved without loosing all my emails.
No offense guys.This forum is new and I felt it warranted a disposable address.
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Post by rmhovis on Feb 17, 2009 12:37:30 GMT -6
Thats a great system, I think I'll set my emails up that way.
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Post by Dave on Feb 17, 2009 14:47:56 GMT -6
I noticed a mass email was sent to the members. Sometimes this worries me.Email address can be sold. I have lost a ton of useful emails this way as I dump the account when the Spam starts. This forum account however is set up with a disposable email address. I have a PREMIUM Yahoo account and have limitless disposable addresses.I just set one up and use it where ever.Each address is pushed to my REAL email address.Each is marked by a different color.When Spam starts,I just dump the disposable address and the problem is solved without loosing all my emails. No offense guys.This forum is new and I felt it warranted a disposable address. Mc Not sure what you are talking about with the email issue here. Can you explain a little more so if I need to take some type of action I can better understand. Don't know that much about the email system here and it looks like I need to learn something new  Dave |
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Post by Dave on Feb 17, 2009 17:40:09 GMT -6
Mc
Had to read your remark a couple of more time to understand what you were saying and I now understand and correct me if I am wrong please.
I David Smith have never and will never Sale yours or anyones email address to anyone at anytime and anyplace and you have my word on this as long as I am the admin here.
As far as what you do that is up to you and I will not do anything to try and change your mind. This is a free world that we live in and the right to choose is yours.
Each and every member at this forum has a choice when they sign up here to let each and every member either see their email address or they can choose to hide this information, this is up to you.
As the admin I am the only one and will stay the only one that is able to see you email address, in either case. This is so that I may communicate with the complete membership at one time and this is the only time I will ever use this part of the system. It makes it so I don't have to write, at this time 58 separate emails.
This is only a tool for me to communicate with everyone as a whole at one time and this information will never be sold.
Dave
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McKrackin
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Post by McKrackin on Feb 17, 2009 20:01:58 GMT -6
That is good to hear.I believe you and trust you on this matter.I have never been given a reason not to. I have however been burned a few times. I don't expect this will happen in this case. My REAL email has been shown here a few times. I put that out there for the members.Only the owner of the forum is likely to have the ability to sell an email address. I just don't know at this time who that owner is. Don't be offended.Please. My email is erniemcdowell@ymail.com You are privie to this because I trust you. Without the http:/ part,a computer won't pick it up. I hope the servor you've chosen never phishes. I am with you on the building of this forum.I just won't blindly put my personal info in the hands of a third party provider. I hope the post of my personal email shows my faith in you and your cohorts. Don't let me down  |
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Post by akent on Feb 26, 2009 14:21:31 GMT -6
Hey Mckrackin, might I recommend something...
There are harvester bots that live on the web. They will automatically join forums such as this, and they are there only to harvest email addresses for spam. They key off of the @ symbol, generally.
In the future, I would highly recommend you change the way you post your email on forums to something like ernieisme -at- erniesmail -dot- com.
Or some such.
Best,
Kent
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Post by akphill on Mar 6, 2009 21:09:31 GMT -6
i just signed up here and was reading the post and the concerns about the emails did you know that all the servers use spiders that go out and gather info from all the sites i have my own websites also and believe it or not if i want to i can tell you where you are what browser your using how long you stayed what you looked at and how to be in touch with you i call all that scary i dont know what you call it so while surfing have fun AKPhill |
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Post by BTCat on Mar 6, 2009 21:27:10 GMT -6
i just signed up here and was reading the post and the concerns about the emails did you know that all the servers use spiders that go out and gather info from all the sites i have my own websites also and believe it or not if i want to i can tell you where you are what browser your using how long you stayed what you looked at and how to be in touch with you i call all that scary i dont know what you call it so while surfing have fun AKPhill Welcome AKPhill, That's kind of scary stuff, but I have known about it for quite a while. Is there any way to make yourself "invisible" or smash the spider, if you will? Hey, you ought to drop by the guestbook or one of the other areas and post a little bit about your heli stuff. I am a noob myself. One month into my HBFP. |
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Post by akphill on Mar 7, 2009 15:45:39 GMT -6
nope ya cant go invisible or kill the spider the spider do do a usefull service to the owners of all the big service providers like photo bucket who i found out killed one of my background layouts so thay they can make more money off me  guess i could go write something in the guest book ? AKPhill |
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Post by BTCat on Mar 7, 2009 15:55:13 GMT -6
nope ya cant go invisible or kill the spider the spider do do a usefull service to the owners of all the big service providers like photo bucket who i found out killed one of my background layouts so thay they can make more money off me guess i could go write something in the guest book ? AKPhill Yea, any forum would do. I'm just curious and probably if it ends up on this thread some might not see it. My post didn't quite sound right. Sounded pushy. Didn't mean it that way. Hope you didn't see it like that ;D ;D This is a very open and user-freindly forum. You'll like it here. |
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Post by akphill on Mar 16, 2009 14:36:51 GMT -6
Hey BTCat no i didn't take offense to your post i actually just noticed that you were concerned about your post to me and i am finding a lot of good info here from you and the rest of the guys everybody is making my mind remember stuff that i haven't thought about in a long time for that Im very grateful already that i joined the new forum rchelitalk keep flying pard
AKPhill
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Post by BTCat on Mar 16, 2009 14:55:11 GMT -6
Hey BTCat no i didn't take offense to your post i actually just noticed that you were concerned about your post to me and i am finding a lot of good info here from you and the rest of the guys everybody is making my mind remember stuff that i haven't thought about in a long time for that Im very grateful already that i joined the new forum rchelitalk keep flying pard AKPhill Good deal, AK! As I am sure you have found out, I am the class clown, so that is why my other post seemed kind of weird to me. |
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guess i could go write something in the guest book ?