<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Kremmen:
When you are on FT, people in general know how to contact you if you have such information and don't know if you don't have it. If someone has contact information, it probably means they want to be able to be contacted in general.
To suggest that they remove this information and remove all chance for all people to contact them just because of one bad experience is, IMHO, ludicrous. It's the sort of thing that causes more inconvenience to the person concerned and more inconvenience to others trying to contact them.</font>
Sorry Kremmen, but wake up and smell the Internet. I agree, it's ludicrous but it's reality.
It's like complaining you get spammed when you have your address visable on FT, it's not a question of IF but WHEN it will happen. It's not an FT problem, it's an Internet problem.
On the net you don't know who you are chatting with, and certainly in Doppy's case that turned out to backfire. If you really want to be safe online, hide what you need.