Need Your Input for group

Hi Everyone,

To start our pages I need the following info you can email it back to me at:
, this will help not to clog the RCTY newsgroup up.


- Your name:
- Your email (the one you prefer to use):
- Your Birthday:
- Wedding Anniversary:
- What you like to do best, Knit, Crochet, Spin, Needlework?
- Where you live (what city/town and country). There is a would map on the
new site and you will be able to see where everyone is!!

A little biography of yourself: ie how many children, ages, male/female or
any interesting tid bit you'd like to share.

If you'd like to send me a recipe, poem, story, craft tip or link. Please
include it or send it along when you can!!

For those of you who are not interested -- please ignore this little
interruption. lol

Loads of hugs,
Melody (Angelicsong)

Hi

Nora actually has most of this information already.

Darlene in Toronto
http://members.rogers.com/craftkitten


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Beside this what pages are you talking about? I won't want a lot of
this information on the web for public view.

Darlene in Toronto
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I'm sure many (most?) of us don't want our names and birthdates and
other personal information published on unsecure websites. Can we all
spell "identity theft"?

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:25:14 GMT, "Angelicsong"
wrote:

Hi Everyone,

To start our pages I need the following info you can email it back to me at:
, this will help not to clog the RCTY newsgroup up.


- Your name:
- Your email (the one you prefer to use):

For those of you who are not interested -- please ignore this little
interruption. lol

Loads of hugs,
Melody (Angelicsong)

In article ,
wrote..
Beside this what pages are you talking about? I won't want a lot of
this information on the web for public view.

Darlene in Toronto

Darlene!!
It's for a private members only group, where we can post things
we can't post HERE!
Melody is attempting it again, as the last time was a fiasco with
people flaming her, trying to say she was trying to steal people
AWAY from THIS group, which BTW was NEVER her intention.
HTH,
Hugs,
Noreen

--
STRIP *tease* to email me.

Nothing will be put on the RCTY group pages that aren't already PUBLIC
KNOWLEDGE ON THIS NEWSGROUP!

Geees, try to do something nice around here .......


"SlinkyToy" wrote in message
...
I'm sure many (most?) of us don't want our names and birthdates and
other personal information published on unsecure websites. Can we all
spell "identity theft"?

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:25:14 GMT, "Angelicsong"
wrote:

Hi Everyone,

To start our pages I need the following info you can email it back to me
at:
, this will help not to clog the RCTY newsgroup
up.


- Your name:
- Your email (the one you prefer to use):

For those of you who are not interested -- please ignore this little
interruption. lol

Loads of hugs,
Melody (Angelicsong)

Yes Darlene, I know that *Nora has the info* but I'd rather hear it from the
member themselves. Thank you.


"Mischief" wrote in message
...
Hi

Nora actually has most of this information already.

Darlene in Toronto
http://members.rogers.com/craftkitten


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You say that birthdates would be password protected. The e-mail
addresses of members should also be protected because posting a real
e-mail address on even a "private" site can mean spam.

Darlene in Toronto
http://members.rogers.com/craftkitten


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You got it, no problem. Thanks for the input.

Melody


"Mischief" wrote in message
...
You say that birthdates would be password protected. The e-mail
addresses of members should also be protected because posting a real
e-mail address on even a "private" site can mean spam.

Darlene in Toronto
http://members.rogers.com/craftkitten


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I must be missing a post, as I don't see where there was an offer made
to put any sort of protection on any pages.

That being said, how secure can a password be that is distributed via
email to anyone who asks for it? How secure can a password be that is
stored in a low-encrypted format on a server not controlled by the
page owner, said page owner having no say whatsoever about the
security of that server?

Another group I participate in (majordomo, not USENET) has a message
board behind a .htaccess/.htpass UID/password pair. Anyone who
subscribes to the list receives the UID/pass via email once they
respond to the automated majordomo "did you join this list?" query.
Several thousand individuals have that information, including quite a
few spammers who regularly exhort us to buy pharmaceuticals from
third-world countries and to visit porn sites that make even my hair
stand on end.

Very few sysadmins at large ISPs bother to put REAL security measures
in place for their customers. People who NEED security recognize that
fact and pay good money to have their servers and sites protected
adequately.

It isn't about "trying to do something nice", its about the potential
illicit use of the personal information you are soliciting. As a
regular reader of this forum for two years (give or take) I can't
recall more than a handful of posts from you (just asked google: 8
posts since June 2003), yet you ask us to blithely provide to you our
names, our locations, our birthdates, and similar information for our
spouses and offspring. Given this information it takes very little
effort to obtain drivers' license numbers, Social Security numbers,
and other information used in identify theft schemes.

What's to say that YOU aren't going to misuse the information? And if
you don't, how do YOU plan to protect this information, once you have
it, when it resides in a tidy little Access or Excel file on your
computer? Do you trust your spouse/roommate/housemate not to mine
your machine for useful tidbits of information?

The bottom line is, if you don't want the world to have access to
information you shouldn't put the information on a website unless you
are certain of the security protecting the information.

Michelle
Who worked in Defense data security
/geek

PS -- where do you get this overweening urge to fix what ain't broke?
RCTY has been going on for years without spiffy YahooGroups and
without pretty little webpages complete with cheezy mp3 streams and
cute little animated graphics. It ain't broke, why do you suppose it
needs fixed?

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:26:47 GMT, Mischief
wrote:

You say that birthdates would be password protected. The e-mail
addresses of members should also be protected because posting a real
e-mail address on even a "private" site can mean spam.

Darlene in Toronto
http://members.rogers.com/craftkitten


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