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Re: Posting to the forum and protecting your privacy
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Jan 18 12:16:30 2005
Lea,
I read it, but misunderstood it. I figured that people would be able to
look through them, but only if they were looking up endo, not my name.
It just scared me a little bit because I trust all of the women here to
be understanding, compassionate, caring people who will not judge anyone
else on their conditions or problems. If some jerk I went to high
school with googles me, I would rather them not know all about me, ya
know? *laughs* I will do the anonymous from now on.
I am not quite sure how you want us to send you the info to get our
names taken off the past posts. When it comes to computers, I
understand Internet explorer, Word, and email/messaging. Beyond that,
I'm pretty illiterate. I'll give it a shot.
Thank you for your help and all of the work that you do here!
Mandy
At Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Lea wrote:
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>Before you can post a message to the forum you get this page:
>
>http://forums.obgyn.net/cgi-bin/mailform
>
>Which is full of very important information that we want and need you to
>read. Right above the part where you have to click the circle saying
>you have read and agree to the rules it says in nice bold print:
>
>Please be aware that all messages on the Endometriosis Forum are
>archived and accessible to anybody on the Internet including Internet
>search engines. This should be taken into consideration before sending
>postings of a personal or confidential nature.
>
>So then, you click the circle and the 'continue' button is activated and
>you click it and there is the message form. At the top of the message
>form page you will see in BIG BOLD FONT:
>
>!! NOTICE !! Please be aware that all messages on endo@obgyn.net are
>archived and accessible to anybody on the internet including internet
>search engines. This should be taken into consideration before sending
>postings of a personal or confidential nature.
>
>You will also notice the message form has pre-filled spaces showing your
>real name and email address as you registered it and directly beneath
>that are TWO check boxes, one will set your name, email and signature as
>anonymous, the other changes only your email address to anonymous.
>
>We have provided steps to protect your privacy but you must read the
>rules and follow the instructions.
>
>The technical department has implemented a feature that automatically
>removes last names from posts (unless you put it in the body of your
>message). Your first name and email address are always shown unless you
>select the anonymous feature. If you would like your address and/or
>name removed then you need to send the complete url to me
>(Lea.Harth@obgyn.net) with the top part of your ORIGINAL post (or
>posts). The information would look like this:
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>http://forums.obgyn.net/endo/ENDO.0501/0382.html
>Re: Online search...
>From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
>Tue Jan 18 09:37:42 2005
>
>I will then have the techies remove your info from your posts and any
>replies that carried your information through.
>
>In the meantime, either use the anonymous feature or make up a nickname
>and use the anonymous email. And if you are going to do that, then
>please DO NOT include your real email address in your forum messages.
>
>Now here comes the part you're really gonna hate, Google and other
>search engines work by indexing the Internet on a grid-type layout. It
>takes several weeks to get through all of the countless number of
>websites on the Internet and then they start over. They will not
>manually update any of their search results and will continue showing
>what is in their cache until the next time that section of their grid is
>re-searched and re-indexed. However, when someone clicks the link to
>see the actual page they will see the edited version with your
>identifying information removed.
>
>Please, whenever you are posting information to any sort of message
>board, be very careful to look for and read the rules and disclaimers so
>that you can know what information is gathered, what information is
>disclosed and how the information is used. We use the registration
>information solely to identify your posts in the database for instances
>such as having the entire post removed or your posts edited. We do not
>now, nor do we ever intend to sell any of the information contained in
>our registration databases.
>
>Do not assume that when you post to a message board on a "Women's"
>website that no men will be trolling the site looking for just the right
>gal. We have had instances of this behavior in the past and that is why
>the registration and anonymous features were put in place.
>
>I personally recommend that you set up a web-based email account (Yahoo,
>Hotmail, etc.) and use that for any and all websites that require
>registrations as that is the main source of the spam you will receive.
>It will help keep virus infected emails out of your computer and protect
>your privacy. You can also then use that address here if you would like
>to be contacted personally by anyone on this board.
>
>--
>Lea Harth, Managing Editor/Project Manager
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