Author: Steve Glanzfeld
Date: 06:56:34 06/20/04
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On June 20, 2004 at 05:51:07, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >In addition: It is a closed forum (with password) and thus can Spammer machines >not simply come in here. > >I plead for it that everyone one valid address indicate here must. You miss something which is really dangerous: Since the email address of a member is contained in the HTML code of EVERY POSTING he writes (under his name = mail contact link), all theses adresses are stored locally (in the reader's computers) in the the BROWSER CACHES of ALL READERS. IOW., when members all around the world have read the postings by John,Jack,Mark,Danny,Randy,etc. the email adresses of John,Jack,Mark,Danny,Randy,etc. are in their browser caches, and are possible targets for viruses. Now, if only one of the readers isn't careful enough to defend against virus attacks, a virus may read these files, find every email address (simply looking for ..@..), and attempt to send a virus to it. Do you sometimes have the impression that mails are being sent from your system, although you didn't write any? It's really dangerous! In addition to that, somebody could give an email address to a spammer (i.e. by signing up to a spam sending websites, using that address) and by that virtually destroy that email account. That's why dummy addresses are used. Btw. the reason that I've changed to another (dummy) address was, that I've noticed that the previously used adsf.com, to my surprise, really exists (adsf, not asdf...)! Of course I don't want to use an existing domain for that purpose. Steve
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