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Panhandler
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cladon
Junior Member
Belgium
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 Posted - 05 May 2004 : 18:59:23
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 May 2004 : 19:10:54
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| I would strongly advise checking with your members before even thinking about doing this, using your email address to register at the forum is one thing, having it exported into someones outlook address book is a different matter entirely, most email viruses thrive because of outlook address books. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Posted - 05 May 2004 : 19:43:16
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Originally posted by HuwR
I(...) most email viruses thrive because of outlook address books.
Hmmm... an arguable statement   . They thrive because people are careless and do foolish things with strange emails. I use Windows based computers since 1990 and never had a virus in my computer.
Now regarding the topic. I see no major problem doing that. You can just create a query that gives you name and email for each user and then export the query to a csv formatted file, that can then be imported by Outlook. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 May 2004 : 20:02:28
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Hmmm... an arguable statement . They thrive because people are careless and do foolish things with strange emails. I use Windows based computers since 1990 and ever never had a virus in my computer.
Neither have I, but outlook address books are still one of the fastest ways of spreading a virus. I would also question the legality of holding all your members email addresses on your pc without their express permission |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Posted - 05 May 2004 : 20:22:43
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Originally posted by HuwR
but outlook address books are still one of the fastest ways of spreading a virus.
That is true, however if you use Outlook you probably need to use the address book as well.
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I would also question the legality of holding all your members email addresses on your pc without their express permission
Have to agree with you on this. |
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Panhandler
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 05 May 2004 : 22:53:55
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Originally posted by HuwR
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(viruses). . . thrive because people are careless and do foolish things with strange emails. I use Windows based computers since 1990 and ever never had a virus in my computer.
Same here. Avoid "chat rooms", "news groups" and "adult sites"
and don't submit your good email address carelessly.
Keep Windows updated regularly, use an antivirus program, firewall,
spyware and maybe run CWS Shredder as a precaution.
Shoot, I don't even get Spam!
The email lists that I do have are kept in a separate folder
and imported to a different identity only when needed.
I'm sure there are plenty of users that want everything free,
such as forums, asp hosts, and anti-virus programs.
Perhaps they lend themselves to victimization because they don't
keep updated subscriptions, or tend to be careless because it is all "free".
I suspect that they might be victims of email pirate/viruses.
It is a legitimate concern. 
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cladon
Junior Member
Belgium
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Posted - 06 May 2004 : 09:31:51
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The problem i have I want to make a newsletters with Publischer or Word and send that to my members. I think th only way to do this is to export the membersname and e-mail to Outlook.
Maybe there is another way to do this? |
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Ares
New Member
USA
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Posted - 07 May 2004 : 13:19:15
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I have an idea for something similar, and no i dont see a prob with it. If a member doesn't want email from me or my site, then they don't join. Simple as that. On my forums i specifically state that they will receive emails from me concerning the site, and this may include update information, newsletters, or anything else i send personally. They must ok this before joining.
As for the virus issue, just don't be careless and you wont have any problems. Simply put.
Back to my idea, it's not an export, but a feature to compile a member list (which you could use for any kind of email program - outlook or otherwise). You'd have to manually copy/paste the addy's if you wanted to use them from a separate asp generated file, and could update this file as needed with other features as well. For those worried about "security issues" with having a file on your server that listed all your members, just generate the file and take it down for your own use immediately after.
I'm not planning to work on this mod myself, but i'll work with anyone who's gonna try it. I've already got my hands full at the time. LoL |
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PeeWee.Inc
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 May 2004 : 14:34:23
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If a site told me they was going to be exporting my e-mail to some kinda list outside of the site, i would not joing.
also, i think you would have to make it clear that you was going to do it this way. |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 02:29:10
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What's the difference if the Admin of a site copies and pastes the email address into a file or exports them into a database? The Admin can do anything with the email addresses within the scope of the terms of services s/he establishes with the users.
It would be reasonable to expect the Admin to compile the list of emails (any reasonable visitor knows the Admin can see them) to send email updates about the site or even a newsletter. The key words are reasonable. If it was a daily digest of posts without the visitor's permission then that would be unreasonable for most people. It would be unreasonable for the Admin to share the list with vendors or partners without permission.
Different legal jurisdictions may have stricter rules, but I believe the US has a mainstream policy on SPAM and privacy I'm basing it on that. |
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Panhandler
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 09:06:06
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Originally posted by Astralis
What's the difference if the Admin of a site copies and pastes the email address into a file or exports them into a database? The Admin can do anything with the email addresses within the scope of the terms of services s/he establishes with the users.
I agree.
Who would be foolish enough to give out their private email address to a public forum anyway?
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Carefree
Advanced Member
Philippines
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 20:18:32
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Well, rather than joining the legality/morality argument, I just made him a page that'll do the job. The output format is semicolon separated, to make it easier to do an instant mailing (simply copy/paste the entire paragraph into the BCC - blind copy to).
If you want a copy, get it here:
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