Email Flooding With Viruses

[barmar]

Furthermore, if anybody actually IS retrieving data from BBO members' profiles, he is NOT using some generic tool that will get easily confused by disguising @ etc.

Actually, I suspect that's exactly what they're doing. I doubt the spammers know anything about BBO, they probably just search all files on the disk looking for things that look like email addresses. That's far simpler and more effective than programming their tools to know about lots of different, relatively obscure applications.

[rona_]

Well then. maybe someone can explain this. I have had two different email addresses on my profile for the last three years. One was a hotmail account. I have never had spam sent to either of those addresses. In fact the only address that gets spammed is one that has never been on my bbo profile. :) So I would tend to disregard most of the above posts and continue showing my email and name. I am rather tired of all the people called Private, whose email is private, and level is private of course. On the whole they aren't the ones to display the best of manners, neither in tournaments or in the MBC. :D. Gone a bit off-topic here, sorry................

 

Rona

[csdenmark]

Well then. maybe someone can explain this. I have had two different email addresses on my profile for the last three years. One was a hotmail account. I have never had spam  sent to either of those addresses. In fact the only address that gets spammed is one that has never been on my bbo profile.  :)  So I would tend to disregard most of the above posts and continue showing my email and name. I am rather tired of all the people called Private, whose email is  private, and level is private of course. On the whole they aren't the ones to display the best of manners, neither in tournaments or in the MBC. :D. Gone a bit off-topic here, sorry................

 

Rona

I am very tired of that too. Those people contacting me with such I inform their ID looks hostile to me and I reject further contacts. Of course same for all those who think it is more fun to switch their nationality than providing solid basic personal information.

 

I think BBO ought to set up a bold policy about basic personal information and then display that on ID from the database. Also remove the default from download info with 'Private' so that people much too easy get to the silly conclusion that such kind of info is private. - They simply don't understand why I reject access for them to my table. Many don't know that much english that they have any chance to understand the information about that I give them.

[nickf]

I am very tired of that too. Those people contacting me with such I inform their ID looks hostile to me and I reject further contacts. Of course same for all those who think it is more fun to switch their nationality than providing solid basic personal information.

 

I think BBO ought to set up a bold policy about basic personal information and then display that on ID from the database. Also remove the default from download info with 'Private' so that people much too easy get to the silly conclusion that such kind of info is private. - They simply don't understand why I reject access for them to my table. Many don't know that much english that they have any chance to understand the information about that I give them.

 

I think Groucho Marx probably said it best, "I wouldnt want to join a club that would accept me as a member".

 

I will however, keep any eye out for members who espouse (imho) irrational views like those quoted above.

 

nickf

sydney