[PPRAANet] PPRAA is now on Facebook!!

[Rick WØRIC]

Facebook has nothing to do with email spam or "send money" scams.

Spam comes mostly from the address books in peoples email (msn, aol, hotmail
& yahoo are the worst) that is not protected.

I never get money scams on gmail. Also, I get maybe 5 filtered spam messages
a week on gmail and it filters into the gmail folder.

Gmail (Google) must have the address books protected very well.

Being on this reflector or any other reflector has nothing to do with
Facebook.

Having open emails on a website such as www.ppraa.org could be vulnerable to
spam if not properly protected as well.

Hope this is helpful.

73
Rick



Hello everyone,

At the last general membership meeting it was approved to create a Facebook
page and begin using other social media technologies to promote amateur
radio and our club.  Unfortunately, a mis-configuration of the Facebook
account allows for email routing which means that every time something
happens on our Facebook account it treats it as an email which in turns gets
published to the reflector.  We are taking steps to correct this so the
reflector does not get these messages.  We apologize for the inconvenience
and we hope to have this resolved quickly.  If you decide to add PPRAA to
your individual Facebook account that is great, please do so.  The PPRAA is
not requiring that our membership create Facebook accounts we are leaving
this decision up to the individual.  I want to thank everyone for their
questions and concerns and let us know if you have any other problems or
questions.

73,

Michael E. Derbort, KCØELG
President
Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association
president at ppraa.org

Hope to see you at Megafest
July 16th 2011, Monument Colorado
www.ppraa.org

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Benedict Cruise <Bencruise at msn.com> wrote:

> Bad idea, Rick.  Now we have more spam coming over the reflector as well as
> a several "send money" scams.  If you want to fool with these networks, ok,
> but I don't care to be involved and resent someone else involving me.
> N0LNW, Ben Cruise