Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-20 Thread Joe Bernard
I'm not particularly alarmist and I know info can be found on the internet if someone puts effort into it, but I stopped signing city and state after my name here a few years ago. To quote the great Olivia Rodrigo, it's a bad idea, right? Joe Bernard somewhere out there On Tuesday,

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-19 Thread Kim H.
Hi Chester, I thank-you for your truthful and reality check, regarding the impossibility of feeling secure over and through the internet these days. It is like you can run, but you cannot hide from the vast available information on the internet about you and other people. Kim Hetzel, who

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-19 Thread Chester
I don't want to come across as being an alarmist or encouraging people to be paranoid but if someone has your full name and city of residence, it can take just a few seconds of Internet searching to get your address. It's easier to find the right listing if the name is more unique and/or the

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-17 Thread John Rinker
Dear All, Apologies for the late response. I've been out canoeing and camping in this gorgeous Fall weather! So far, anybody who has asked to be removed has been so (with the exception of Stoker because I can't find you on the map). I have also removed a few street addresses upon request and

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Benjamin L. Kelley
and for those that failed to read the actual website before raising their hackles and wildly speculating and adding unrelated stories, If you don't want to put your home address, it recommends hoosing a random address in your town or vague lat/long to add some anonymity but also to keep the

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Kim H.
@John - Thank-you for your thoughts and offering to help. Kim Hetzel Yelm, WA. On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 9:28 AM John Rinker wrote: > Good morning Kim and all, > > Thank you for the heads-up on the Reddit thing. I'm not sure what it means > that someone copied the map. Does this mean they've

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Brian Turner
Seems like the solution to this would be to just pick a random point in your city, or a favorite establishment’s address, or a park or what have you. Let that be your location on the map.On Sep 15, 2023, at 2:28 PM, Caroline Golum wrote:Seems like the subreddit is pretty sparsely attended so at

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Caroline Golum
Seems like the subreddit is pretty sparsely attended so at least there's that! On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 2:01:19 PM UTC-4 eric...@gmail.com wrote: > John — Of course the map itself doesn't have a dark-sided or hidden > intent. I know you're trying to help people connect and I appreciate

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Eric Marth
John — Of course the map itself doesn't have a dark-sided or hidden intent. I know you're trying to help people connect and I appreciate the gesture. However there is no telling what people can and will do with a database like this. Because this forum is visible to the public I would never add

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Josh C
Yeah, I put Eric's address as my own... On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 12:28:43 PM UTC-4 John Rinker wrote: > Good morning Kim and all, > > Thank you for the heads-up on the Reddit thing. I'm not sure what it means > that someone copied the map. Does this mean they've copied all the data as

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread John Rinker
Good morning Kim and all, Thank you for the heads-up on the Reddit thing. I'm not sure what it means that someone copied the map. Does this mean they've copied all the data as well? For benign or nefarious purposes? Maybe they just think it's cool? Has anybody who posted on the map recently

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Luke Hendrickson
I listed an address of my fave fish taco spot as my home address :) Be careful out there y’all On Friday, September 15, 2023 at 7:33:50 AM UTC-5 brok...@gmail.com wrote: > Hopefully this is the closest this list ever gets to the Nextdoor app. > > On Sep 15, 2023, at 8:23 AM, Ted W wrote: > > 

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Brian Turner
Hopefully this is the closest this list ever gets to the Nextdoor app.On Sep 15, 2023, at 8:23 AM, Ted W wrote:An innocent idea but on the public Internet, quite dangerous. Sure, the odds are low that someone will use the information maliciously, but why risk it?On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 7:58 AM

Re: [RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Ted W
An innocent idea but on the public Internet, quite dangerous. Sure, the odds are low that someone will use the information maliciously, but why risk it? On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 7:58 AM Eric Marth wrote: > I love how many people listed their home addresses so you can go and snag > their Rivs out

[RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-15 Thread Eric Marth
I love how many people listed their home addresses so you can go and snag their Rivs out of their sheds! On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 10:35:39 PM UTC-4 krhe...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello John Rinker .. > > Kim Hetzel. > > On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 7:33:41 PM UTC-7 Kim H.

[RBW] Re: ATTENTION ! Someone posted on r/Rivendell_Bicycles the map of Rivendell bike owners

2023-09-14 Thread Kim H.
Hello John Rinker .. Kim Hetzel. On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 7:33:41 PM UTC-7 Kim H. wrote: > I noticed this just a while ago: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/Rivendell_Bicycles/comments/16ivfb0/rivendell_bike_owner_map/ > > I have no association with the OP whatsoever. > > Is this