How do you check out a Cyprus44 Forum member?

Glorybee


Joined: 30/04/2010
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
18/01/2012 18:04

Need to verify recent member contact. How do I do this?

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
18/01/2012 18:56

click on their handle and it will allow you to see their public profile



check out their past posts its amazing what people give away

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
18/01/2012 18:57

Glorybee,



Click on their member name on the left and if they have an e-mail address no problems. But I am sure you will find that a lot for whatever reason like to remain anonymous.



Chris

Glorybee


Joined: 30/04/2010
Posts: 132

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 16:44

What if you think you might have been the focus of a scammer??? Who would you report it to?

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 16:48

You don't... You just adjust your email inbox to filter the address of the culprit as "spam" or "junk" and their emails will be directed there instead of "inbox"

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 16:51

A scammer or spammer ?

two different things

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 17:48

thats why most remain anonymous .

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 17:59

Agree rowlo

I would never use my personel email address on a forum.

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 20:23

I have multiple e.mail addresses and I use the mail rules to direct them to appropriate folders. Simples.

ismet

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3456

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 20:35

I have been using the same email address (erolz@cream.org) for well over 12 years now and have always used a shortend version of my real name on forums for as long and can not say I have any problems. Yes I get spam mails but I get those one alternate email addresses that I have not used on forums and have existed for much less time than my main one and I manage spam mail in various ways.

I am not convinced that anonimty on forums is necessary if you behave decently and in the same manner you would in the real world. It might be useful if the previous is not the case I guess but I leave that to others. Personaly I have no interest in 'saying' anything other than clearly as myself be that in the real world or the virtual.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 20:40

erloz



I like your post



I have nothing to hide and find it so silly when members do the game playing thing





Spider,X

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 21:17

Would you give a complete stranger your home address,.. of course you wouldn't so why give them your email address ?

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 21:32

Do think its every ones right to please them selves if they want an email address put up.

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3456

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 21:56

an email address is more akin to a phone number. I have never been ex directory in the pre internet days, you could look up my phone number in the BT phone book then, so its no different now for me with my email address. The point of having one is so people can contact me, same as having a phone number.



By the would happily give a stranger my home address. I do it all the time and have done it here on this forum. It is not a secret. I am who I am and I live where I live. In the UK you can find out someones home address easily via totaly legitimate and public records.



What does everyone have to hide ? Am I really so unsusal or is it actualy this unatural virtual forum that is unusal ?

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 22:09

erolz I totally agree with you, not everyone who does not divulge their e mail address is trying to hide but I find no problem with divulging mine or my address.My doberman dogs would love anyone to visit !!!! LOL





Gerry

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 08:17

I hid my email address because i had some very rude emails sent from forum members. I dont have anything to hide.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 09:02

birdman,why do feel the need for having 'doberman dogs' to protect you?



went to meet someone at their house few months back,who had a rather large house being 'protected' by 3 geman shepperds.They weren't in.I was in the garden playing with all 3 by the time they got in.

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 09:34

yorgozlu



The doberman dogs are not there to protect me! They do however protect the property extemely well. i am well capable of protecting myself!



Gerry

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 10:29

I too have nothing to hide BUT I have no wish to be bombarded with e.mails from anyone who - say - have a personality disorder, a walter mitty disposition, are racist...et cetera - so I am circumspect to whom I give my contact details. The forum members I am in touch with know me and vice versa - life is too short to open oneself up to gutless bullies who hide behind their machines, and in the throes of chemical intervention, type up a storm and press 'send'!

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3456

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 10:51

Before the internet if I were to recieve abusive phone calls on my publicaly listed phone number I would contact the phone company and if necessary have the numbers that these calls are comming from blocked. With an email address my approach would be in a similar vein. I would at first just ignore any abusive emails. If they continued I would contact the email provider they are being sent via and block the email address they are being sent from.

You can protect yourself from recieving abusive postal mail by keeping your postal address secret, you can protect yourself from recieiving abusive phone calls by keeping your phone number secret and you can protect yourself from recieiving abusive emails by keeping your email secret, but is that really any way to live ? Each to their own I guess but for me I prefer to not have to 'hide' and if I do get abusive postal mail, phone calls or email to deal with that directly.

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 11:01

MsGarnet, exactly ... If you have strong views on a subject and some don't like it or agree, which is quite within their rights, it should not become a ' Ill get my hubby' or vile responses as some have had when they have had their email on show.



Simples.... dont encourage ... no email ...

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 23:11

Msg 20, what happened to the forum

you helped the former moderator to start

it appears to not work at the moment?

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 00:55

And they have your mobile phone numbers ?