Messengers?

[Gopha]

Just wondered who wants to put theirs in, mines UBER_MOLE@hotmail.com

btw, im not trying to force people to put theirs down

 

[Gibsonfire]

If you look at the members list some people have their MSN addresses listed.

Mines: gibsonfire10@hotmail.co.uk

 

[Gopha]

Yer i know bout who wants to trawl through the profiles

 

[Taffy]

Taffy29@hotmail.co.uk

 

[Macca]

You can already get people msn or yahoo or whatever they have in their profile. So if you have not done so and you want to then you should do it. No need for this .

 

[Ronin Storm]

i know bout who wants to trawl through the profiles

The same could be said about trawling through a thread.

 

[Gopha]

The same could be said about trawling through a thread.

But going through say 3 pages is easier than going through 102 to find out peoples adresses

 

[Ronin Storm]

Alternatively, you could use the Memberlist Search functionality, enter an MSN Messenger partial address of "@" (no quotes) and that will give you a short list of all users who have entered an MSN address.

Doesn't give you their address directly, but does at least allow you to quickly identify who does have an address.

There is a bit of a risk in posting email addresses in threads that they are scraped out by bots to be added to spam mailing lists. It's generally why people are discouraged from posting their address in plain text. Of course, that appears to be true in our profiles too, but the profiles are not exposed through such simple mechanisms.

 

[Gopha]

Oh in that case you can close the thread if you want.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Nah, I won't close it as people can choose to post or not, as they wish. I do recommend messing up your email address in a way that a human can decode but a bot will have trouble with.

For example:

gopha [at] someNOSPAMaddress [dot] co [dot] uk

Unfortunately that does reduce the utility of threads such as this as it denies cut-and-paste.

 

[Gopha]

ahhh true,but still,its not always bots that do it, real humans do things like this which is stupid,and they would be able to decode it, but still, you can always delete the people from your profile or block them

 

[Ronin Storm]

real humans do things like this which is stupid

Indeed. Our defence against them is [SA]HatfulOfHollow's "stabbing people in the face through the internet" machine.

 

[Nanor]

This is what Ronin is talking about