Phone numbers/email addresses in posts

[patracy]

Just wanted to bring this up for everyone. As it's already in the rules and has been for a while....

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It's become more and more frequent where people post their phone numbers/email addresses in posts. I don't want to have to make this a rule. But PLEASE don't post them in threads. The reason is in no way to suppress communication. It's due to the increasing number of bots we have on the web now. If you post your number here, with the amount of crawling that happens on this forum, rest assured you're going to get spam calls, emails, texts because of it. We made this suggestion long ago due to that. Please use the start conversation feature to reach out to other users here.

 

[swiss]

To put this in non tech speak If you post your or another members phone or email in any public posting, that information will be used against you. Phone Calls, emails, texts etc for the rest of your life.

DONT DO IT

 

[marchplumber]

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