Bill,
VA-Bird is on www.freelists.org. There is no charge for the list, and the
only sponsors are the ads on the freelist.org site. See the freelists.org
privacy statement at //www.freelists.org/privacy.html
I fully support the privacy statement of freelists.
In the VA-Bird archives, all email addresses, even those embedded in posts,
are masked after the "@" sign. However, all 650 VA-Bird subscribers receive
posts with clear email addresses of posters. Those 650 can forward emails
to anyone. Or post them.
When you post to VA-Bird you are putting your email address in the public
domain.
Personally, I do not use my work email in forums such as VA-Bird. Hotmail,
Yahoo and other email services addresses are easy to create and easy to
abandon.
Paul Mocko
Co-owner, VA-Bird
From: "BMcGovern" <bmcgovern@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: bmcgovern@xxxxxxx
To: "VA-Bird" <VA-Bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [va-bird] How does VA-Bird function?
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 14:05:20 -0400
I know this list serve has sponsors who pay the bills, but do they
get access to our email addresses? I thought this listserve protected
the email addresses of the contributors (those who post to the site), but
my son found our postings copied to a commercial site (surfbirds.com)--with
many of our mail addresses included.
Between Aug 3rd and Aug 8th, I found some 18 of our email addresses (the
complete addresses) on surfbirds.com, including:
- ict_earth
- Phoebetria
- Kestrel923
- Dendroica
- SteveYoung (at least twice)
- dwbwmwcw
- mboater
- CarolHardy
- voice
- Phil Kenny (at least twice)
- twoquinns
- dhewitt
- leighfern
- blkvulture
Is there some way we can protect ourselves?
Bill
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