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On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 06:42 +0000, bas wrote: > On 01/06/2010 09:14 PM, james kilty wrote: > >> Don't ever, ever post it to anything, anywhere that you might think is > >> > remotely public... Phone numbers in particular (Trev, yours is all over > >> > some boating forums and trivial to find via google), > >> > > I searched pipl.com for my name and one entry had address and phone > > number! one of my email addresses was there too. > > James > > -- james kilty > blimey, that pipl.com is a little scarey ! But it's good for finding people. There are others that harvest from social networks as well. The crooks who assemble personal data for misuse can have a field day if we are not careful. I don't put my d.o.b. anywhere public, and my web sites and phone book also provide what's on pipl.com. Ditto when I chat about ancestors and family tree - no d.o.b.s. James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html