Forum: Community Center


Subject: Vulnerability of e-mail addresses here at the web site?

Lyne opened this issue on Mar 27, 2007 ยท 35 posts


vince3 posted Fri, 06 April 2007 at 5:19 AM

'ere's one for ya Tom.

as this week is the first time i've ever gotten any spam, and i've had about 20 this week now, favourite has to be my good ol' Nigerian friend from way back when, wanting to give us some thousands of pounds but he can't remember my name address, sex (we never had any i swear) bank details and such! (can't think why he can't remember my bank details,as that is normally one of the first things i share with my good buddies, e.g.. name, fav colour,bank details)

so i wondered this...why can i only wiggle one of my little toes?

then i wondered this.. is there a chance that a particular member that had replied to a thread that i was part of, could be the root of this. I don't know the techy words for it but say I was in a thread and Acadia was in a thread and then this one member replied (don't know who BTW) then the next day Acadia and I both get a pepsi-cola scam-spam, spam-scam,whatever!!

so i guess i'm asking if this could happen because of a single members input, and then the subsiquent e-bot that follows, and also when we log in here are we physically writing stuff here (or wherever Rendo's server is) all of us together, or are we actually writing from our individual IP's or E-mail addresses until we hit "submit" (don't know where that last bit came from, but it sounded clever so i included it)

anyway not sure if i've successfully managed to ask a question with that babble, but maybe it makes some sense.

last question ...if it turns out to be one single members fault for this "shenanigans", and if he weighs more than a duck, may we burn him.