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Old 16-10-07, 01:27
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Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) is offline
former OC MLU, AKA 'Jif' - sadly no longer with us
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 5,400
Default Re: Hi Jim...

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Originally posted by Snowtractor
... I cinna edjumacate yu much, but I do know this. Unscrupulous fellas can set up their computers to troll websites and search for email addresses. Then they can spam you relentlessly or sell your address to spammers who will spam you relentlessly. The PM stuff is password protected and therefore offers greater security from random trolling.
Correct me if I am wrong gents.
Sean
Emailing a member through the MLU Email link works the same way - the addresses can't be read by the spiders which look for stuff like that; what the bugs look for is the '@' sign in the raw text - even just replace it with a '_at_' or similar, which can be manually changed back before sending a message, and they won't recognise the text string as an email address.

There, consider yerself edjumacated...

Jif
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