Randy Howard wrote:
railfan wrote
(in article
. com):
Besides, the downside is with google pages is a biggie.

From
http://www.onedegree.ca/2006/02/23/b...h-google-pages
But you might want to think twice before you hit ³publish².
See that last feature (simple memorable URLS) is also the
greatest weakness of Google Pages and I think it is going to
cause a huge headache for Gmail users. And a potential PR
nightmare for Google.

Why?

When you hit publish your site goes live at
username.googlepages.com.

Nothing wrong with that. In fact it looks like a feature - if
you can remember your Gmail address you can remember your
³Gpages² address.

The problem is it is now trivial to reverse engineer your Gmail
e-mail address. If you see a Google Pages site and want to
e-mail the author - just replace googlepages.com with gmail.com.
I was all set to tell my kids and my 85 year-old mother (all
Gmail users) that they could now post a web page or two super
easy, but I¹m not going to. I¹ve worked very hard to make sure
they¹re their addresses are not easy to find online and with one
click of the publish button Google will make their e-mail
addresses available to every stalker, sexual predator, phisher,
and spammer out there!


GMail accounts are free, so just get another one that you don't use for
the title page name. Let the spam fly to this unused address.

I have multiple gmail addresses for different clubs and groups I belong
to.

B. Boudreau
Canada