Does OGR sell a list of the email addresses of the forum members? I didn't think they did, but now I have gotten an unsolicited sales ad on my email address I use for OGR. Anybody else get something like that?
And no I don't expect this thread to last very long.
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I would say no they do not sell email lists, pretty sure that is their policy too. I have been here for a few years now and have never received an unsolicited email that was train related or could be linked to OGR in any way. My email is also listed in my profile and I have not gotten anything from there either, other than some emails from other forum members from time to time.
rtr12 posted:I would say no they do not sell email lists, pretty sure that is their policy too. I have been here for a few years now and have never received an unsolicited email that was train related or could be linked to OGR in any way. My email is also listed in my profile and I have not gotten anything from there either, other than some emails from other forum members from time to time.
That is the correct method. When those folks who include their eMail address within a post, the spammers/scammers can then see that eMail address without them being a "member" on the OGR Forum, and thus traceable.
Best rule of thumb; NEVER POST your eMail address within any post, so that it is visible by everyone in the world.
Also haven't have any unsolicited email that could be traced to OGR, but I didn't find anything in the TOS specifically stating that they don't sell the address list.
Does OGR sell a list of the email addresses of the forum members?
Never gonna happen.
Suggestion, don't put a e-mail address in a post.
I see our posts all over the e-net all the time. I have done searches on train items and subjects and sure enough our OGR post pop up frequently.
No big deal unless you have put something in a post you don't want the world to see. I noticed that for years now
Larry
I am under the impression, based on sales advertisements received via email, forum sponsors do have access to email lists. Not all of them use them, so could be some just harvested email addresses from our profiles.
What, me worry?
You did post your email address in your bio. Anyone who has registered for the forum can see it and use it.
robots can and do scan web site for emails.
a suggestion to prevent this is
trainforum AT yahoo.com
do not use the @ as the computer program has not learned to change the AT to a @ yet.
the above is a sample and may or may not be a real email address.
I have also recently received a few sales e-mails from a forum sponsor who I have never dealt with before. Not really an issue, but it never happened before.
aussteve posted:Does OGR sell a list of the email addresses of the forum members?
No, we do not.
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