Question For Our Moderator’s?
I just checked some lists where I am just a member, and the members option was present on the menu. However, and this has confused me in the past, why does this option get turned off by owners who then sing the tune, “it was done to prevent spammers from getting your e-mail address”. The e-mail addresses appear as steve@…., ray@…., blenny@…, or, debr@….. The domain name is not shown. For reasons of privacy? You don’t want things known, don’t put them in your profile.
Now, you do have the ability to send mail from this listing to the member who you choose from the listings, and it probably is feasible to write a script to go through the listings and send spam that way, but the only e-mail address shown is your own, you do not have the ability to harvest new addresses from the listings. As inexpensive s it is to spam, and get a high monetary return, it probably is not worth the effort to develop the script to send spam this way. It is far more cost efficient to rent or buy lists of name than to do this.
Admittedly, I do networks and computers for a living, but, I have received only one spam message into my mailbox since midnight Sunday. This doesn’t mean that I am off the radar for spammers. I actually have hundreds each day sent to me. It just means I have pretty good defenses against them reaching my mailbox (he says as he crosses his fingers). I get around 200 messages a day to this account. There are those sent directly through my mail server, and for those I get from my POP accounts, I let the ISP’s involved do the filtering for me. The tools I use are readily available, and free. Admittedly I would dare say that most of you do not maintain your own mail server, but you can protect yourself, and should protect yourself, not only from spam, but from all threats.
\Steve//
> —–Original Message—– > From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of > Menagerie_Manager > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:05 PM > To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [AquaticLife] Re: Question For Our Moderator’s? > > I’m on a few groups that don’t offer the membership page for all members to see. Usually > this happens after an email harvesting incident or after a flame war crosses over into off- > group attacks, such as the one mentioned on a different thread, where the person’s home > address was published to the group with threats of personal retribution. > > DebR and the Three Goldfish > (CB, Lucille, and Raven) > > —– Original Message —– > From: Raymond Wetzel > To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:51 PM > Subject: [AquaticLife] Re: Question For Our Moderator’s? > > > John, Thanks for the refresher. I do recall a while back, some > groups I were on lacked the “Members” selection in their menu’s, > which always puzzled me. Since I’ve become a moderator on many of > these groups I don’t see that option as being missing and is why I > suggested it may only be for the mods — although i wasn’t quite > sure. Still fail to see why some groups offer this for the general > membership and some don’t. I think there are still some groups I’m > on, just as a member, which don’t offer it but I haven’t taken > particular notice. I’m fairly sure you should still be able to go to > your own membership page in case you want to change or add to your > profile (or add/change an email address) — but that page does not > have your sign-up/acceptance date. Ray > > > > — In AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com, JOHN KD7POE wrote: > > > > Ray > > > > It is only available in this group for moderators I think. > > > > All groups have the option of posting it or not. Some opt not to > for privacy reasons. This is especially true of large groups like > this. > > > > John in Nevada > > > > — On Wed, 12/10/08, Raymond Wetzel wrote: > > > > From: Raymond Wetzel > > Subject: [AquaticLife] Re: Question For Our Moderator’s? > > To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com > > Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 9:37 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Bill, The Members selection in the left-hand menu is there on the > > Group Site — at least it is on my Home page. If its not on your > > Home page, I can’t figure why (unless that feature is only > available > > to Moderators); you of course need to be signed in, but I’m > assuming > > you already are when looking for it. Perhaps another Moderator > could > > fill you in further. You joined on October 11, 2008. Ray > > > > — In AquaticLife@ yahoogroups. com, bill1433 > wrote: > > > > > > Like many on this list, I belong to other groups as well. > > > When you go to these group sites there is always a link on > > > the left hand side of the page titled “Members”. > > > > > > If you click on this link you can find, in alphabetical order, > > > all members of the list. > > > > > > Question? Where is ours? Ok, why? Because I have been > > > here for a while now but having the bad memory that I do, > > > and subject to more “senior moments” than I care to admit to, > > > I can’t remember the exact date I joined, this “Members” list > > > would help. > > > > > > Just a thought, > > > > > > Bill > > > > > >
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