Okay, let me first address the log in to the boards issue.
We have a facility in place that will not allow anyone who isn't logged in at Deskdemon to read the boards, it kicks them back to the log in screen. We removed that ability during the early days of the merger with
www.administrative-assistants.com and will restore it in the next 48 hours (probably sooner).
However, I need to reinterate some of the above advice about posting personal information to forum environments,
whereever they might be.
Search engines use automated programs (in most cases) to quickly skim both invisible metatags and text on web pages, in order to create listings. That's how they decide the level of matches and the proper way to position those listings on the search result page.
In our case because DD has so much content out on the web,we're spydered often and at very high levels, additionally we have lots of sites linked to us, which increases the depth and number of times we're spydered for information. The smaller the site, the less information you'll find about them, the larger,,, unfortunately the more information you'll get in searches.
We'll lock the " back door" today, but it;s important to remember some basic rules of internet safety. Don't post your personal details. When you registered for DD you all got as part of that registration,,, an email account. When you need to request information from someone for instance a form that you'd like a copy of, use your DD Email account, OR the private message feature here in the forums, (which will not allow file transfer, but will give you a secure place to trade email information with someone.)
Also, you've seen the occasional "Unregistered post"? the reason that some people can, on occasions post without being logged in has to do with their connection. When the software detects that you aren't logged in, it kicks you back to that horrid error screen, which we're all intimately familiar with. sometimes, on a slower connection the message to "kick this unregistered poster to the curb" crosses paths with a post that is going up. It doesnt happen often, but it does happen.
That's why we keep our trusty moderator team on patrol, to help answer your questions AND to look out for suspicious or unusual activity.
so in short, common sense when it comes to the net is the order of the day,, but anything you don't want showing in the cool light of day means you should take it to the email account or the private message system, which is encrypted like an email account and has the same security in place.
Andrea
