Posted by Ron Hill on June 24, 2005, at 19:51:31
In reply to Re: Med Check. Doing Okay? » Ron Hill, posted by yldouglas on June 24, 2005, at 17:30:48
Douglas,
> But I want to get away from the board.
I'm sorry that you no longer are comfortable at PB. But I think I know what you are feeling.
> I'm happy to talk offline either by phone or email. But I don't know if there is a policy against listing private email addresses or pnone numbers. So I need someone to advise me on how to proceed. God forbid I should break any more rules.
As far as I know, it's not against the PB rules to list private e-mail addresses. However, I wouldn't do it if I were you. The spammers might pick it up. And I definitely would not list a phone number.
Instead, Dr. Bob has given us a safer way. It's called Babblemail. Are you familiar with it? Babblemail messages do not display on any of the boards. I sent you a Babblemail a week or so ago, but I didn’t hear back. Therefore, I assume you do not have the feature turned-on on your end.
Here is a block-copy-and-paste of the Babblemail instructions contained in the FAQ section of the PB site:
<start FAQ excerpt>
This site lets members send messages ("babblemail") directly to each other using just posting names. The messages are sent as email, but by the server, so the sender doesn't need to know the recipient's (and the recipient doesn't find out the sender's) email address. To give it a try, go to the babblemail form. If you want, test it out by sending a message to yourself. Babblemail is turned off by default. To turn it on, update your registration and check the "accept babblemail" box.
If someone abuses this feature, they'll be blocked from using it (and from posting). Likewise, if someone's blocked from posting, they'll be blocked from using babblemail. My plan isn't to monitor babblemail directly, but to ask recipients to contact me if they feel it's been abused. I guess if it comes to that, the usual civility guidelines will apply. To be able to verify that specific babblemails were sent, my idea is to keep a log of who babblemails whom, when, and "fingerprints", but not actual copies, of messages.
<end FAQ excerpt>
Douglas, if you want, please send me a babblemail message and you can tell me your personal e-mail address in a safer environment. I will then reply by sending a message to your personal e-mail address. As it stands right now, I can’t send a Babblemail to you because I don’t think it’s turned-on on your end.
Be well.
-- Ron
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