George Scrivens Mining Accident at Waterloo c.1920's (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, January 06, 2015, 16:28 (3620 days ago) @ davetuffley

Hi Dave,
it's great to see you back on the forum, especially for me with my industrial/mining interests. However may I suggest you shouldn't post your full email address on this public forum. We know you're a good guy trying to help others, which is great, but sadly there are unpleasant people around the world with computers and software that actively searches-out and automatically records such personal info, they then sell email addresses onto all sorts of undesirables who then bombard us with unwanted spam emails. At best these are annoying, at worst they can be very destructive, especially as an email address is invariably linked to shopping websites, passwords to personal/private accounts and even private financial info.
My pc's security is very tight indeed, yet some years back I still gained a virus from such an email that promptly broke my pc's hard-drive and disabled the pc, all very annoying plus expensive and timeconsuming to fix.
Some people try to fool the bad guys by typing their email using the word "AT" instead of the "@", but I doubt this works nowadays. I suggest you amend your recent posts to remove the email address and instead invite readers to contact you by direct mail; clicking the envelope icon next to a username allows anyone to send secure emails to other users, direct into their email inbox, without divulging personal or confidential details.

I do hope this helps, and doesn't deter you from continuing to post and help others on this friendly, but still publically visible, forum.
Atb Jeff