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pilotdave

Hey Sangiro, quit reading our PMs!

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And from a little further on in the FAQ:
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Avatars are a superficial personification of a poster. They get old very
quickly. On occasion avatars tell you about the poster.

5. Other boards show me who is online. Why should I post here?

Big Brother is watching. If you want your internet activity broadcast to
the world, then use the other boards. One of the reasons online status
is broadcast is to get you to use PMs. See #4 above. Other boards can
also track your movements within the board and broadcast this to the
world. Newsgroups do not do that.


In case anybody was wondering, you can choose not to view avatars, and you can make yourself "invisible" so that nobody except moderators can see if you are online. If you are so paranoid that you don't want even the mods to know that you are online, then you can browse logged out and only log in when you want to post something.

FWIW, your email isn't any more secure than your PMs. Do you know how many people have the passwords necessary to read your email? Probably dozens. How many people have the passwords needed to read your PMs? The answer is, I believe, one.

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How many people have the passwords needed to read your PMs? The answer is, I believe, one.



Yeah, but he has a funny green head :P

Wendy W.
There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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vatars are a superficial personification of a poster. They get old very
quickly. On occasion avatars tell you about the poster.

5. Other boards show me who is online. Why should I post here?

Big Brother is watching. If you want your internet activity broadcast to
the world, then use the other boards. One of the reasons online status
is broadcast is to get you to use PMs. See #4 above. Other boards can
also track your movements within the board and broadcast this to the
world. Newsgroups do not do that.
where the fuk is that bullshit posted? what a hump!

Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky

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I KNEW I shouldn't have been PMing my credit card numbers, ATM pin number, social security number, and my secrets about skydivers and dropzones. Everyone else can stick with flirting, but I have serious business and general rumor spreading that I need to take care of.

I wonder what that person would think of using dropzone.com email, which of course is more secure because it's email, right?

Anyway, I'm going secure. No more PMs, no more "who's online", no more email, no more logging in, no more loading web pages, no more internet... i'm unplugging! Then my secrets will be safe from evil skydiving webmasters! Eh, maybe not. I'll risk it. Sangiro, remember us little people when you use our PMs to take over the world.

Dave

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