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I'm somewhat disturbed. When you Google my username, it brings up my profile for Hatrack and my e-mail as shown at Virtual Battle School. I mean all it brings up, for me at least, are posts that I've done here. Does this happen for others? I don't think I'm fond of the idea that people I don't know might find out my e-mail address, I mean other than Hatrackers because we're like a big family.
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For me, most of the results are for a forum that I'm active on... But there are a lot of results in these weird sites that I barely even know.
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They'll just ask you for your email. Then you can post a modified version of it so that no bots would pick it up, like "my_name _AT_ domain _DOT_ com" and that's it.
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Uh, you did notice the second option? The one that lets people email you through the board software?
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fugu, IIRC that option wasn't working back when I signed up. I don't know if they fixed it in the meantime though...
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You know, when I was first doing this several years ago, I noticed that when I displayed my e-mail, that SPAM increased dramatically. Then I removed it and it slowed considerably.
There are text bots out there scouting e-mail addresses?
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Steve, who exactly do you think will be Googling your username and why? I don't think you really have anything to worry about. If people are looking for Captian America stuff, they're going to use a space, or if they don't, they're not going to be too interested in finding your posts and e-mail address, they're just going to skip over it and keep looking for whatever they were looking for. If they know you from a forum and are looking for you, well, then, they found you. No big deal either way.
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If I really needed you for some dire emergency I'd start a thread entitled: CAPTAINAMERICA COME QUICK OR, IF YOU CAN'T COME QUICK, SEND AN EMAIL TO THE ADDRESS IN MY PROFILE SO I CAN SEND YOU ONE!!!!!
Steve, in the event that someone needed to email you and you have yours hidden they can just do a mayfly thread. It's not a huge problem and if you are hesitant to have your address public then keep it hidden and folks will let you know if they need your addy.
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