Lynn Larsen
Lynn Larsen
All,
Thanks to Graham for helping members get a copy of "Blue and Orange." The Gulf cars, GT40 and Porsche 917 alike, had a great influence on my love of sports cars and this looks to be a top shelf chronicle of those racing icons.
There were a couple of responses in that thread that have prompted this posting. Graham did offer to help those who contacted him directly and that is exactly how you should provide personal contact information. Please, for your own protection, provide things like addresses, home phone numbers and, of course, any financial or banking information in PMs or, preferably, in emails directed only to the intended entity.
www.GT40s.com is one of the websites that are regularly scanned and indexed by most of the large indexing sites like Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. In this regard, we are a victim of our own popularity. I have been very surprised to see my own name pop up in a Google search because of a posting on GT40s.com. So that if you post personal information, be advised, it is open and EASILY accessible to anyone who wants to use it for any reason what so ever. In this day and age, it does pay to be somewhat prudent with this kind of information. Gary Gibbs has another good example of how to make your information less easy to pick up by programs that regularly harvest information from the internet. You will notice on his 2G Motorsports website that he gives his email address as:
CAVGT40_at_cox.net (please replace the "_at_" with "@")
This will be missed by the vast majority of the harvesters, however a human with the ability to apply contextual logic is easily able to recognize the intended message. (Gary I didn't think you would mind a little fee publicity
PM me if you'd like me to use a different example.)
Prudence and little tricks like this will reduce the amount of junk in your email inbox, at least, and may save you from identity theft at best.
Regards,
Lynn
Thanks to Graham for helping members get a copy of "Blue and Orange." The Gulf cars, GT40 and Porsche 917 alike, had a great influence on my love of sports cars and this looks to be a top shelf chronicle of those racing icons.
There were a couple of responses in that thread that have prompted this posting. Graham did offer to help those who contacted him directly and that is exactly how you should provide personal contact information. Please, for your own protection, provide things like addresses, home phone numbers and, of course, any financial or banking information in PMs or, preferably, in emails directed only to the intended entity.
www.GT40s.com is one of the websites that are regularly scanned and indexed by most of the large indexing sites like Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. In this regard, we are a victim of our own popularity. I have been very surprised to see my own name pop up in a Google search because of a posting on GT40s.com. So that if you post personal information, be advised, it is open and EASILY accessible to anyone who wants to use it for any reason what so ever. In this day and age, it does pay to be somewhat prudent with this kind of information. Gary Gibbs has another good example of how to make your information less easy to pick up by programs that regularly harvest information from the internet. You will notice on his 2G Motorsports website that he gives his email address as:
CAVGT40_at_cox.net (please replace the "_at_" with "@")
This will be missed by the vast majority of the harvesters, however a human with the ability to apply contextual logic is easily able to recognize the intended message. (Gary I didn't think you would mind a little fee publicity
PM me if you'd like me to use a different example.)Prudence and little tricks like this will reduce the amount of junk in your email inbox, at least, and may save you from identity theft at best.
Regards,
Lynn
