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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3596229, member: 112"]No need to apologize Alicia, you're just new here and simply didn't know. And it's not that it's against the rules per se, it's that we want to help our members protect themselves. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, this is a busy place, a popular website. And as such, at any given moment, 24/7/365, there are 40-50 bots accessing this forum that are archiving and/or harvesting information. Now some and probably even most of the bots are harmless, nothing more than search engine bots. But some of them are not harmless, some of them are specifically looking for personal information, stuff like email addresses, phones numbers, mailing addresses etc etc. And once gathered that info is then sold to 3rd parties, spammers for the most part. </p><p><br /></p><p>So if you post that personal info, well, I think you get the message by now. In any event I removed your email address.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3596229, member: 112"]No need to apologize Alicia, you're just new here and simply didn't know. And it's not that it's against the rules per se, it's that we want to help our members protect themselves. Ya see, this is a busy place, a popular website. And as such, at any given moment, 24/7/365, there are 40-50 bots accessing this forum that are archiving and/or harvesting information. Now some and probably even most of the bots are harmless, nothing more than search engine bots. But some of them are not harmless, some of them are specifically looking for personal information, stuff like email addresses, phones numbers, mailing addresses etc etc. And once gathered that info is then sold to 3rd parties, spammers for the most part. So if you post that personal info, well, I think you get the message by now. In any event I removed your email address.[/QUOTE]
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