Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 13:19:14 03/15/04
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On March 15, 2004 at 15:46:19, David H. McClain wrote: >On March 15, 2004 at 14:29:15, Dan Honeycutt wrote: > >>Who are they? First I get an email from "chessdatabase moderator" subject >>"Invitation to join the chessdatabase group". sounds interesting so I click the >>join button on the email. that takes me to Yahoo! groups where i click another >>join. a short while ago i get an email from "Yahoo! Groups Notification" >>subject "Request to join chessdatabase denied". >> >>Fine if they want to deny my request but a bit tacky after i made the request on >>their invitation. >>Dan H. > >Dan, > >Same here. It originated in my particular case when I sent one of our members >some games that were requested on THIS forum. I don't remember exactly which >member it was because I did not think any more of it until these requests >started to appear in my email. > >With a search of the archives I think the perpetrator could be discovered. > >This is the only forum I know that posts your email address in your profile. >Being a trusting person when I joined I suppose I was very naive to think they >wouldn't do this. My email address is now changed to offer some protection from >the "harvesters." I have a suspicion our email addresses are being used here >for the "Invitation to join the chessdatabase group". > >When I sent an email to whoever is in charge of this in Administration I was >told "to change my email address." Yeah, that's a great solution now...... > >DHM it's not clear to me what they're harvesting. they weren't selling anything. this is the only chess related group i'm a member of though i recently released my program which Leo was kind enough to host so they could have found me there. it's no problem. i can delete 'em as fast as they can send 'em and if not i can block them. Dan H
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