# The privacy option

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-privacy-option/22421>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 15, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-privacy-option/22421 "2000-06-15T00:41:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-privacy-option/22421/1 "2000-06-15T00:41:53Z")

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Is available if you care to use it. After the current infestation of pond scum around here I find myself grateful for the option.

Thank you admin and nifty programmers!

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**Author:** ![Alpha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Alpha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-privacy-option/22421/2 "2000-06-15T02:22:34Z")

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You might want to remove your homepage link too, it it has your email on it.

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**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-privacy-option/22421/3 "2000-06-15T21:43:16Z")

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I appreciate the suggestion.

That email address is seperate from the one I use as my main account, and so can remain for people I don’t know to contact me through. Also, if the trolls that have been playing games with my email address use that one I will have a little better idea of who they are, as I can track people on that page.

Fair warning. 😃