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Subject: Re: chessdatabase group (OT?)

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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