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 Announcement: hiding your e-mail addressBy: Mark Morgan on 4/5/2003; 10:53 PM For a very long time now I've been not showing e-mail addresses on Unreason's web pages. Combined with some template monkeying about, it should have made the site fairly spambot-resistent. Except for authors, who have always had their e-mail addresses displayed in the byline for a piece of writing. Now is as good a time as any to mention to everyone that you can mask your e-mail address from anyone but me and the other admins. Go to your member preferences page and there is a setting: "Keep my e-mail address private Yes No". I am one of the people who first advocated for this. It exists because the e-mail address you sign up with is your unique identifier in Conversant. If Conversant needs to know who you are, it needs to know your e-mail address that you signed up with. This is also the e-mail address it sends mail to if you are subscribed to the mailing list. When you click on that setting in Conversant, you see no change at all. But if I were to display your e-mail address for some reason (as, in the bylines) Conversant would mask your address from the world. You'd still get e-mail to the address you subscribed to originally. You'd still login normally with that address. But no regular visitor to the site would know your e-mail. Take Richard Davidson--he has anonymity turned on, so instead of displaying his address on a piece of writing, it displays a fake address that Goes Nowhere Does Nothing. Why is this a good time to mention this setting? Because the forthcoming Member Profile system needs some way to identify you and display your profie. And It's going to do that by your e-mail address, and display that address to the world. It won't make you get a lot more spam--the spambots are pretty much completely blocked from seeing the site at all--but it will mean that anybody who is viewing the site will know how to e-mail you. Including the army of trained laser-wielding attack monkeys. Just so you know. Anyway, if you want to turn on that privacy setting that's where you go, and that's what it does.
 RE: Announcement: hiding your e-mail addressBy: ScottN on 4/6/2003; 7:24 PM For those who want to know, the reference on the link is at the bottom of the linked page.
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