May 2007 family newletter
Tricia Elbl has put together a new May newsletter for the Nickell family. She asked me to put it online, but I was reluctant to put everyone’s contact info out there in a searchable place where spammers and identity thieves could find it.
First, if you’re just here for the file, here is the newsletter, and to access it you will need to type “letmein” without the quotes in order to, well, let you in.
Here are some of the options I considered, I decided on #3.
1) put it in a folder and tell search engines not to index that folder. (not perfect, spammers could still ignore that and grab the info)
2) chop out the address and phone info, and put it online. (that really makes it less useful)
3) create a password protected file, and include the password online. This might make it less useful, since the file won’t be very useful without the password, but if I post the password with the file, a human could type it in, but search engines can’t index it, and automated spam tools won’t bother. It won’t stop a determined scammer, but it is pretty unlikely someone would go to that trouble with all the low hanging fruit out there. If you are a scammer, move along, nothing to see here..
Let me know what you think… a good balance, too much of a pain?