If I may make a suggestion. Why don't those of us who would like to make our

dawn_mo

dawn_mo

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email addresses availabel to other post them here. It would have made the move from epi to Finer Kitchens a lot easier for some of us. If you do not want to give out your personal email, you might open up an account at Hotmail or Yahoo, designed only for sites like this.

 
Dawn, your email already shows up to the left of the message screen under your emoticon

It's an option we can choose when setting up our profile. I just added mine so that it appears. We have an option for it to appear or not.

 
The only problem with the address appearing below the emoticon is that...

...you can't alter the address to keep the spammers from harvesting it by using (dot) instead of ".".

You know what I mean, right?

homecook78-swap(dot)com is way more protected from spammers and most folks know to replace the (dot) with a ".".

The software used on this site won't allow that. It "sees" it as an invalid email address.

If someone has a clever workaround, I'm all ears.

Michael

 
maybe, if you just put the user name under the emoticon and put the rest of the...

addy: @yaddayadda.com in the permanent url place?

 
i can't imagine that i get any more spam for having my addy posted. besides...

i have a 12 mm delete button, and i'm not afraid to use it.

 
You guys should post your email addresses in the Who Are You forum because

that forum is only available to registered users. Spambots and random people can't get into it. Anyone or anything at all can read this one.

Personally I'm against making e-mail addresses available publicly even in such a setting, so I'm not really recommending this. But for those of you who want to do it, that might be the best way.

Plus, it would force you to post your introduction, if you haven't yet!! ;o)

 
I did this on a forum awhile back and ended up with 600+ SPAMS a day....

So I won't be doing it. I sat SPAM filters up but it was such, such, such a pain. Eventually, I just gave up and got a new email address.

Simply took too much of my time. Not to mention the viruses and Adware that came my way.

I'm glad you posted that, Michael. It's a very wise warning.

Thanks

 
I tested this once. I posted two different addy's from two yahoo accounts on a couple of ...

...somewhat obscure message boards. One was a diesel truck enthusiast site and the other a faith / fellowship site.

It took longer for the faith site, but both addy's were receiving 30 to 40 spam emails a day by the third week.

Robots troll, as you know, and find anything that fits the template of and email address.

Warning Will Robinson!!! Warning!!!!

Michael

 
Mimi, I cleared out everything, got a new password and so on, then sent

a message with no body. It went.

Then I tried another to the same person, with body, NO GO.

Then I tried another with no body again; it didn't go.

No big deal. Just a test.

 
Tip on how to post to prevent harvesting for spam & phishing....

don't actually type in the @ and . - type them out as AT and DOT like this.......

my hotmail account is mlinkinhokerAThotmailDOTcom

 
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