Be Careful What You Post

I noticed that too Val. It's not actually what I posted, but if someone called me by name in their post it showed up. Very strange!

MA, thanks for the heads up on that. Glad to hear that no one from TCS did any thing wrong.

I never ever would think that TCS has any thing to do with that .

i looked for mine and several came up but it was a different dougbug, that is weird though, oh well its the internet

It's kinda neat yet anyone can check on someone elses user
name and see what they posted

That is way too wierd. I checked and had found only one (at this time) of my posts.

My other handle show only three and they were what someone responded back to.

Scary.

im just wondering if this is illegal or not to have that
site up

Curiousity got the better of me and I had to check this out....'superkitty' seems a very common and popular handle, posts on Nissans (LOL) and one even mentioned cats! Some of my posts did come up, I've only ever posted on TCS, so that was interesting to see. At least the few pages I waded through had no smut on it, so it seems that other 'superkitty' thankfully are clean.

Can't see that it's illegal. Posts are public, and TCS people aren't the only ones reading this stuff. Guests/lurkers are on all the time scanning the posts, and often find cat questions answered without having to register.

None of my posts from TCS were on there but I had tons of posts from another forum I frequent. All the posts on there were actually mine, but I guess the user name Uabassoon isn't common.

I checked as well, just using the name of one of my cats, and it only pulled up some of my posts from this site, not others. Was this site submitted to them?? They imply that that is how it works.

Although on the other hand, if someone linked a message from here on another board, and that board was registered, those may be the urls it is picking up.

Wow, that is freaky. It only has about 48 of mine listed though oddly enough.

hissy and/or other moderators,

I don't know what methodology boardreader.com uses, but search engines such as altavista.com have automated programs ("spiders") which comb the internet ("crawling") to fill up their databases. There was a way to set up your website to ask the spiders to skip over it - there may be a way to keep these forums from being crawled by another site.

--Chewie

Hey,Hey,Hey you guys!

Anyone can just come to thecatsite.com and where someone has posted just click "search" and all the posts they have ever made come up- When I'm really bored, I will go to a user i'm good friends with and just read through their posts, for some of the members who have been here awhile it's good to know what this site has been through, I typed in WellingtonCats and it came up with about 3 or 4 pages of my posts from awhile ago.. strange!

sam.

WoW--That IS pretty weird, to be able to key in a "username" and pull up any posts from the w.w.w.!! There certainly IS no privacy within the confines of any particular posting board!!

If you have online Journals ppl can read these too!!
Thank God i deleted mine months ago

LOL they don't have any of mine, except my name in an answer to one of my post. Guess I'm the hidden poster .

I bookmarked this site

It had lots of Erickas, but I had to search for TTMom to find anything by me.

That's creepy! It only brought up 7 of mine, though, and we all know I've posted more than that! Still . . . very strange.

Originally posted by chelle
im just wondering if this is illegal or not to have that
site up

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I don't believe it is illegal and in fact I think it is meant to be a tool for forum users to search for helpful information already posted. From my understanding, most, if not all, sites sign up for this service. Another board I was on participated in that a couple of years ago and the site owner withdrew the sites name after members protested. At first I forgot about that but then again, I'm getting old!

Everyone should always keep in mind that this is a public forum. And you don't have to be a member of thecatsite.com to read what we post. I guess I'd be more concerned if it was a forum for rape survivors or something similar. A good rule is to never include your address, phone number or other personal information directly on the boards. Once you post it... it's there for the world to see. If you want someone to have any of your information for whatever reason, use email.

Well, at least I'm not the only "jcat" out there, and also not the only one writing posts about cats. It's good to know that such a site exists, though.