Reply #28: Some of us [View All]

[ForrestGump]

have very specific connections to very specific servers that can give someone an ID straight away. My occupation and location are extremely specific (and I am on my workplace's server 24 hours a day...there is no 'kooshy'-ness involved) - not to put too fine a point on it - and if you know either one you can figure out who I am within a few minutes, if that. I was not amused to see my information displayed for - I assumed at first shock - all the world to see.

I realized (only after I alerted the mods to zap your post above) that your little device was mirroring my information ONLY to me. Still, the anxiety that it caused me prior to that realization was unnecessary and I don't think that another x-hundred or x-thousand other DUers need to have their info flashed back at them and assume that you are publishing their details for all to see. It's not funny and it's liable to lead to your perfectly innocuous (as above) or interesting contributions being deleted as DUers who feel singled out send a knee-jerk alert to the moderators. Please get rid of the damned thing.

Thanks...


EDIT: could have sworn your post was toasted, but there it is and another one's been removed instead. Whatever...that signature's still way beyond obnoxious, even if the moderators think it's okay.