Monday, December 17, 2007

~ Warning - Important Journal Info - Please Read ~

Well, I will start by stating I've already contacted Journalseditor.  I frowned upon having email addresses next to comments from the get go.  My fear came true today.  Someone went thru my journal and emailed several folks who left comments.  The mail is titled 'RE: Your comment in journal Thisandthatandhockey'  when you open the mail the comment is there and then it is followed by some BS advertising.  I am sorry if you received this note. 

 

I will let you all know here and now that is not how I respond to comments left in my journal.  I reply to the alert that was sent to me when you left the comment.  So you will see this, 'Re: AOL Journals Comment Added Alert ("This and that, and hockey!")'   

 

I can't control the folks who click on email to send you a note, but wanted to warn you this is happening.  I also wanted to let you know you will want to watch the email address the note is coming from.  

 

Hopefully AOL will rethink this process..........  again I'm sorry if you were spammed today.

 

EDIT:  feel free to forward your complaints or this type of spam mail on to  journalseditor@aol.com  Let them know how you feel.

 

Hugs

~d

51 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sheeesh-what they won't think of-so far so good on my end.
You are right it should be our choice to leave our screename or not-or only have it visible to the journal owner.But that is how I made some friends -by visiting their journals-tough call
Take care
~c~

Anonymous said...

with all "good" things there are always kinks.  Figured it would be something I just didn't know what.  Figures though.
I don't understand why we even needed that link.  If I want to email someone that commented in another's journal.. I can copy and paste the address (although I don't seem to see a reason to email someone else's commentors ...Sad!

Promise

Anonymous said...

Thankyou for letting us know Donna.I will watch out .I hope journals editor sort it for you.Take Care God Bless Kath
astoriasand http://journals.aol.co.uk/astoriasand/MYSIMPLERHYMES

Anonymous said...

All i can say is I am glad that i came onto a full mail box............. lol

Well i guess these creeps have to try anything they can to get to upset people who read and leave comments in the journals.......... all i can say is they much have a sad sad life whereby they get their kicks from sitting on the computer all day fishing around in people journals.............. SAD !!!!

Anonymous said...

Very kind of you to let us know :o)  Luckily it's not happened to me yet *fingers crossed*

Jenny

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the warning, I too feared this would happen, I think they need to rethink this.

Yasmin

Anonymous said...

I warned the Journals Team about that in a Journals Chat before the weekend. They find it very difficult to grasp that their ideas could actually be harmful to people, such as the comments alerts for journals that aren't yours. This is equally odious. Wish they'd get out of their Ivory Tower.

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the heads up Donna

Have a great Monday evening!

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't get an alert from an advertizewr but I've had someone leave an advertizement in several of my entries the last couple of days, I just blocked & removed the comments. Hope it doesn't get worse ... may have to take my graphics somewhere else. Emmi

Anonymous said...

Hi Donna,

This is very nice of you to warn everyone about this. Hopefully it will prevent them from the irritation of dealing with this nonsense.  I agree with you and the others who feel our email addresses should NOT have been added to the journals.

Take Care,
~Bilinda~

Anonymous said...

I didn't see a reason for the e-mail link next to the comment to start with, and I figured -someone- would use it for something unintended <sigh>

Anonymous said...

I got one of those today too, advertising some weight loss group.  Linda

Anonymous said...

I thought this was a bad idea the minute they introduced it.  I mean you do not give your email address out willy nilly, only to friends.  I hope you have reported it to Magic Smoke as well.  This facility needs to be taken off and fast.  Who knows what abuse it can lead to and how much upset. Thanks for letting us know Donna.

Anonymous said...

No, I didn't get any, but you know... spammers are always going to find a way. How annoying...

be well,
Dawn
http://journals.aol.com/princesssaurora/CarpeDiem/

Anonymous said...

I have written very strongly Donna pointing out that not only can we be sent advertising, but one person commented on my journal that she was scammed for money.  It also gives our address to any sexual pervert who wishes to harass us or any nut who wishes to do the same just to cause upset.  This has to go.  

Anonymous said...

Yes, I got 2 emails today one saying they got my address from your journal and another from their weight loss site asking me to join. It's ok, its not your fault. Aol should know better.

- Jessica

Anonymous said...

So sorry to learn there's a spoiler/spoilers making problems around here.  Thanks for the warning.  Hope it all concludes soon.

Cindy

Anonymous said...

I got one, but didn't know what it was, just deleted it! GRRRRRR
Sugar

Anonymous said...

I got one from a Jibbie49@aol.com asking me to join sparkpeople.....I was like WTH is this! I will forward a complaint to addy you gave, thanks

Anonymous said...

I got a few spam comments last week...I just deleted and blocked.  Thanks for the heads up!

xx
Russ

Anonymous said...

I got one today but didn't click on it.  However it didn't have your journal name attached to it.
Traci

Anonymous said...

I got one from your a week or so ago and today I got one from Terri at I live in Soapland.  I sure hope AOL fixes this.  
http://journals.aol.com/lattedah711/lattedah/    Tracy

Anonymous said...

Thank you Donna...

It isn't your fault...AOL just has to come up with these bright ideas....and don't think about what we might like or dislike...I think we should be able to vote on things such as email address being beside our comments, and comment alerts and such....it's BS really...Hope they get it straightened out!

Thanks again

Hugs
Terri

Anonymous said...

::sigh::

Somehow I'm not surprised.  :(
It's like that on myspace too.  Somebody always trying to spam.  

Thanks for giving us the head's up.  

XOXO,
bridgett

Anonymous said...

Geez.  What a loser.  ;o)

Have a good one.

LORI

Anonymous said...

Luckily I didn't get that email.  I hope they get rid of that because what real sense does it make to have it in the first place.  Hope you are warm and happy in Buffalo! : )

Allison

Anonymous said...

i received a few of these emails today but none with your name on them.
XO lisa

Anonymous said...

No worries D!  Just wish I had read your entry before I sent you an e-mail.  :)

Anonymous said...

I haven't checked my e-mail in a bit..so I don't know if I recieved anything..It's a shame that it seems to be one thing after another...lol...Hope you have a great week...
Sheri

Anonymous said...

When I noticed email beside my s/n on a comment I left it puzzled me because I don't have an aol email account. I was curious so I clicked on it and it brought up Outlook Express, I don't use Outlook Express either.
As you know my daughter did receive this spam. It saddens me which of your entries they chose to send this spam from. You and your hearfelt entry fell victim to some ignorant low lying SOB's and it pisses in my cheerios.
Carry on dear Donna, carry on! Hopefully the powers that be at AOL will listen to all of you and resolve the issues before it goes too far.
Hugs
Debbie

Anonymous said...

I'm with you with the addys.  I was contacted by a vicious ex-boyfriend of a girl who has another journal.  She had been journaling for over 2 months & I believe I was her only reader (an maybe still am).  She goes to Chat rooms and there was a man obsessed with her.  When she wouldn't meet him for coffee or date him, he came to her journal to call her names to intimidate her. Then me because I was a commenter.

I like the way you reply to the Alerts and I do the same now that I know how.  No worries, we understand.   Bethe

Anonymous said...

LOL...okay I was just coming to your journal cause I got the email too and my daughter got one from mine...I was like huh??  I was wondering who it was cause it wasn't from me???  Then I get one from a journal comment I left to you...ha..so they did it to me as well.  And my comment is what I was going to look at cause there was a lot miss spelled so I was like what in the world was I thinking when I typed this.  so am still going to look to see if I really messed up that bad on my spelling..snickers..hope you have a great night...I see when I did a search on your name is says you have a shared journal...am going to see if it says mine is too..what is that about..?  Hugs,TerryAnn

Anonymous said...

Donna, thank you for the heads -up, I did get one of those strange emails today and was like WTH ? Love Lisa

Anonymous said...

I got one today to..just placed it in the folder of value! HA!

Anonymous said...

i got an email from a 'jibbie' but i don't think it was from a comment in your journal, but someone else...have no clue as to who.  this is not good!
gina

Anonymous said...

I had an e-mail from someone called Jibbie.  It didn't have your journal name on it though.  The comment I had left was there, so I knew where they had come from.  I just read it and chucked it.  I did think it was out of order that they should go down peoples comments and then e-mail them.  But it's not your fault Donna.  Don't beat yourself up over it.
Take care and have a good Tuesday.
Love to you
Carolxx

Anonymous said...

I got the same email from a Jibbie!!!!  Sad, that some people have to do this!

I had already opened mine, but thanks for the warning anyway!

Lois B

Anonymous said...

I had one from Jibbie too! I wondered if I sounded overweight in my comment to you! They're inviting people to join their diet club. It's not your fault so I wouldn't worry over it, I just deleted it. Jeannette xx  

Anonymous said...

thank you!  Linda

Anonymous said...

((((((((((((((((HUGSTOYOU))))))))))Yes,I got the same thing.Thanks.

Anonymous said...

OMG!!! Thank you Donna for letting us all know this!
Lisa

Anonymous said...

I was one who got the advertisement.  I figured it was from the mail link in the comment section.  Actually, I received a couple so they didn't just do it to you.  I also reported the problem.
Missie

Anonymous said...

Wow...I come back from a couple of busy days...and BAM! I guess have to take the bad with the good.

Brenda

Anonymous said...

I don't know if it was from your journal but I did get an e-mail from someone stating they had read my journal (which is private) and then went into their speel of advertising. I agree if you want to e-mail someone take the extra step and do so. Thanks for letting us know! Hope your having a happy day. Take care of you,
Katie

Anonymous said...

Hi hun, *hugs* I had go and catch up in here, lol. I missed quite a bit sorry. I had a busy weekend. Spending time with family, taking care of Avon for my customers, christmas shopping, crazy busy. But it was fun too. Yes i did get one of those emails with the spam advertisement on it. I was like wth? lol. But i knew of course u had nothing to do with it and i just spammed it. But ty agian for the heads up to ppl. I cant believe that happened. I will make a complaint to the journals editor asap. I agree with u i dont think ppls emails should be linked at all. I guess i dont have worries cause my blog is on private. For those how have public though thats not so good in that regard. Cause u can possibly get all kinds of junk. I hope aol wises up for once and takes care of it. Sounded like u had a pretty good weekend except what happened from ur fall. U poor thing. I hope ur feeling better and u have been off ur feet as u can be and resting. That had to have hurt :( I really can get where ur coming from too about not getting into the Christmas spirit and not wanting to send out cards and such. I felt that way 3 yrs ago when my g-pa passed away. He passed a few days before Christmas it was very tough that yr. Well hun ur in my prayers as always. take care. Have a good rest of day. *hugs, Leslie

Anonymous said...

AHA!   I wondered how that email happened to me!! ....but mine wasn't from your journal, it was another one, because it was a weight loss ad.     GRRRRR   to the freakin' spammers.
~Meg

Anonymous said...

I got the same email from Jibbie.....one about my comment (how would they know if I have a weight problem from my comment?) and then another to join sparkpeople.  I knew it wasn't from you. I was wondering if others had gotten the same email.
Hugs,
D

Anonymous said...

I agree with you on the email addresses nexgt to comments, not good.
Have a good day...hugs,
Joyce

Anonymous said...

I didn't get any of this spam thank goodness but I appreciate you letting everyone know about it.  It sounds like quiet a few people were hit with this.  Some folks have nothing better to do with their time.  Disgusting.  As always, I just want to say I'm a big fan or your tags and always think they're awesome.

Nelishia
http://journals.aol.com/nelishianatl/PrayingandBelieving/
http://journals.aol.com/nelishianatl/Crocheted-creations/
http://journals.aol.com/nelishianatl/The-tents-of-Deborah/

Anonymous said...

Imagine me giving you a standing ovation. Your efforts have paid off and the email addresses beside the comments are gone. WAY TO GO!
Hugs
Debbie