In reply to "Condom@Comdex.org" who wrote the following:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:49:10 -0600, Fred Fishbin
> <FredFishbin@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You may be a really swell guy, but in today's world I would also be pretty
> > leary of any sign-up to get passwords.
>
> First rule of Internet Club: Never ever ever ever EVER give your email
> address (and, since they've lured you off Usenet onto the Internet,
> your IP address as well) to someone you have no idea who they are, or
> even where they are, on the promise of getting something for "FREE!"
>
> Never...
>
> Period.
>
> Full stop.
>
> CDX:)
As some of you know, I've been around Usenet for a while now, it used to be
called newsgroups and I subscribed when it was called Bulletin Boards.
Individuals all over the world running usenet-type file exchanges and TRUE news
articles from their spare rooms..... those were the days. Modems running at 2400
bits/sec, so slow you could see individual letters as they arrived, almost :)
Anyway, I only said that so you can judge what I say now. Which is - I used to
subscribe to abook.ws before Buck took it onto Usenet. It used to be an internet
based audiobook site. And I can say I have never in all these years heard
anything detrimental about abook.ws
Plenty of beefs about iddley twiddley "this is not right" and so on but Buck,
mostly unaided at first, got it up and running smoothly and SAFELY.
There is no aspect of this site which is unsafe and the things most people don't
like about the newsgroup (audiobook club) are the safety and anonimity aspects
which obfuscate (nice word that) the exact title and poster names etc.
Buck, fairly recently, added another layer of security to limit the number of
non-contributors entering the site. He asked for recommendation as a prelim to
being allowed in and asked for your email address etc to confirm you are real,
as the vast majority of any such sites do. If you can't make up a throwaway
email addy for this purpose, you shouldn't be wandering around the internet on
your own :)
All I really have to say is that I think that abook.ws is perfectly safe and the
contrary opinions are unjustified.
lanky
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