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Re: Has MOCPages been harvested for spam?
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Date:
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Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:53:09 GMT
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Sean Kenney wrote:
> Derek, everyone:
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> Yes... this was a design flaw on my part; I would never, NEVER sell people's
> personal information. I, myself, get over 400 pieces of spam every day, and am
> very sensitive to giving out my own e-mail, phone numbers, etc. I'd never do
> that to everyone here in this community that I love so much.
>
> Sorry about the spam :( ... MOCpages has been getting hit pretty hard lately by
> form-filling bots & crawlers and whatnot.
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> In retrospect, this design flaw was a pretty stupid one on my part. The good
> news is that I can change the behaviour on MOCpages pretty easily ... I can use
> your user ID (the number present in your home page URL) and I'm not sure why I
> never thought of that when I created MOCpages. The tricky part is going through
> and changing the 2,964 existing users' thumbnail directories in the filesystem
> from addresses into IDs. I'll have to write a program to do that... which might
> be a while since I'm moving across the country this week. :(
>
> But, consider me "on it".
Thanks for your reply Sean. I was just in the process of composing a
message to send to MOCPages feedback outline what I thought the problem
was. Now that you appear to be fully aware of it I won't bother.
Not knowing you personally I wasn't sure what to do when this happened.
Since starting to use unique email address for different services this
is the first time something like this has happened. I wasn't sure what
to do. So I thought I would ask people about it first in case there was
already an understanding of the problem.
I'm glad to here you are on it and I understand it may take a while to
address.
Thanks for your attention to this issue,
Derek
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| (...) Derek, everyone: Yes... this was a design flaw on my part; I would never, NEVER sell people's personal information. I, myself, get over 400 pieces of spam every day, and am very sensitive to giving out my own e-mail, phone numbers, etc. I'd (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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