Aaron Buckley wrote:
Hey guys, unless the particular section we have is open to the general public, I doubt that anyone on the board is using a bot to deliver spam.
Thus, it's probably safe everywhere but the for sale section and a few others to put your actual address in the format of
johnny@mindspring.com
- AB
You would think that. But since I'm so greedy, I actually run a bot and pull email addresses directly from the database. It's amazing how much a few hundred email addresses go for!
Of course, I'm kidding. Aaron's right. You "should" be safe posting your email address in the private forums. At least safe from the webbots that walk through web pages. This doesn't cover if someone actually hacks into the forums, but they'd have access to email addys at that point anyway.