PlaneShift

Support => Forum and Website Discussions => Topic started by: sesmi on August 15, 2007, 12:37:07 am

Title: Spam
Post by: sesmi on August 15, 2007, 12:37:07 am

I think it should come to your attention that celina_am6@yahoo.fr is harvesting emails from this site to perpetrate the nigerian scam.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Karyuu on August 15, 2007, 01:16:29 am

How did you realize that?

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: sesmi on August 16, 2007, 12:09:18 am

Because I was sent one of these emails.  ::|

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Caarrie on August 16, 2007, 12:22:33 am

and how do you know he got your email address from this forum?

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Coneitic on August 16, 2007, 02:35:33 am

maybe he created a email address specifically for this site

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: neko kyouran on August 16, 2007, 03:00:58 am

by having your email public in your profile page, you run the risk of web crawlers finding it and adding it to their spam lists.  nothing we can do about that.

mine is public so that people can contact me, if they need something and are unable to PM me.  nice thing about gmail is that it all goes to the spam folder automatically and I never have to deal with it.  :)

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: sesmi on August 25, 2007, 11:45:16 pm

Quote from: Caarrie on August 16, 2007, 12:22:33 am

and how do you know he got your email address from this forum?

Because he stated so.

Whoa, is this like the skeptic capital of the internet? You're bordering on existentialist.  ::|

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: neko kyouran on August 25, 2007, 11:53:14 pm

I point you to my post I made above.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Karyuu on August 25, 2007, 11:53:50 pm

Quote

is this like the skeptic capital of the internet?

Hardly, two people have asked "How are you sure?" and that's something that I consider necessary information. If you have your email address public, you are going to receive spam. It's a fact of the internet, a way of online life. That user has no account on this forum either, so I'm not sure what we can do.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: sesmi on August 26, 2007, 06:59:52 am

Quote from: Karyuu on August 25, 2007, 11:53:50 pm

Quote

is this like the skeptic capital of the internet?

Hardly, two people have asked "How are you sure?" and that's something that I consider necessary information. If you have your email address public, you are going to receive spam. It's a fact of the internet, a way of online life. That user has no account on this forum either, so I'm not sure what we can do.

Look, I was just tryng to being helpful. I figured if this person had an account, it could be deleted. However, I was simply treated very rudely.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Waylander on August 26, 2007, 07:03:36 am

No you weren't.

Caarrie was simply asking whether you were sure that it was from this forum and how you knew it wasn't from somewhere else, assuming your email is somewhere else.

I'm sure she's sorry about the misunderstanding.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: sesmi on August 26, 2007, 07:06:12 am

Quote from: Waylander on August 26, 2007, 07:03:36 am

No you weren't.

Caarrie was simply asking whether you were sure that it was from this forum and how you knew it wasn't from somewhere else, assuming your email is somewhere else.

I'm sure she's sorry about the misunderstanding.

I'm just getting a arua that I'm barely being tolerated here.  ???

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Karyuu on August 26, 2007, 07:08:40 am

You're seriously overreacting. You made a statement and we asked how you were sure. It's really not something to get so hung up about.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: Caarrie on August 26, 2007, 12:42:12 pm

Quote from: Waylander on August 26, 2007, 07:03:36 am

I'm sure she's sorry about the misunderstanding.

i dont understand what was misunderstood about my post. i was simply asking a question.

Title: Re: Spam
Post by: sesmi on September 23, 2007, 01:00:59 am

Quote from: Karyuu on August 26, 2007, 07:08:40 am

You're seriously overreacting. You made a statement and we asked how you were sure. It's really not something to get so hung up about.

I'd just like to apoligise, I was in a somewhat bad mood that day. So very sorry.