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Comment from Ravi Agrawal on 2010-03-09

2010-03-10T05:21:19Z

Well, if you are so inclined to post your email address, use masking techniques that will fool a spam harvester. Like 123.xyz@hotmail.com without the y. That way, you have posted your email address too with the spam bots going nowhere :-)

Or still another way -- 123 period xz (ad) hotmail period com & so on.

However, nowadays every blog / comment has an option to enter the email address which will never be shown to search engines or will only be available to the writer of the article. So guess we are pretty safe here.

Moreover, each Blog / Post can be monitored using RSS Feeds.

Ravi.

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Comment from Craig on 2010-03-09

2010-03-09T21:49:36Z

Very good points; relative to todays circumstances. It would be a fair call to suggest todays youth, posting, jokingly, personal information and pics of friends throughout the public domain - facebook, myspace, youtube, etc, are not considering what will be, in future technology.
Have a look at the last 10 years. OK, big call. Then look where the internet has come in 5 years - massive search abilities. You can nearly find anyone. How many of us have searched for old school mates, and found them.
Think about the future. You jokingly take a pic of your best mate half nude while camping, post it, all have a big laugh, and that's it. Now think about new technologies like at international airports with face recognition. Everything, EVERYthing posted on the net, stays on the net, and what if that mate from the camping trip was to enter a high profile position and future common search tools included face recognition and he was 'discovered' again.
A really simple, single case scenario, but generalise that and it can be applied to all postings on the net.
What ever you post, be prepared that it is being copied and stored somewhere, and future technology will make it available.
Todays gigabytes was like yesterdays kilobytes - nothing to store, transmit and search.
On the other hand, if you plan to have an online life, there are so many options for disposable contacts, including free throw-away email addresses and cheap mobile phones - a SIM card is like yesterdays disposable cameras.
This could be a mammoth forum - the future of online identity. I can wait to read everyones opinions and tricks and tips.

:: Thanks for the site Leo - hope you enjoyed your visit to my home here down under.

Annonymous - LOL.

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Comment from Glenn P. on 2010-03-09

2010-03-09T19:42:44Z

Personally, while I'd never give out my phone number, I just might give my E-Mail address on a public message. The main issue is not one of privacy: the issue is one of image. The downside to not providing your E-Mail address -- and the one which you simply fail to see -- is a serious loss of credibility. People simply tend to give far less credence to those who are anonymous -- to people who are unwilling to identify themselves. Those who are willing to put themselves "on the line" by divulging their E-Mail identities are simply looked upon as having inherently more legitimacy. E-Mail is not nearly as personal as phone messages, and despite the risk of additional Spam, it can still be filtered. So in some cases, I'll still add the E-Mail and bide the "danger" of added Spam.

It's a "cost/benefit" analysis. You're opinion is appreciated, Leo. But kindly stop denigrating mine!

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Comment from xxxxxxxxx on 2007-03-16

2007-03-17T02:21:48Z

I agree with you 100%

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