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John,
Never mind my question. I just did a "WhoIs" lookup of the domain
and see that you are the registrant of the SailTrac web site. I
would recommend in future telling people that up front.
Alan
At 07:30 AM 6/22/2007, jcnoller wrote:
>In the past I too used all the various web tools available to stay in
>touch. I kept my own blog pages, posted my position reports with QTH
>and had them display with Yotreps or Shiptrak because I wanted family
>and friends to stay in touch and follow my journies. But the
>internet today is not the friendly place it once was and these are
>all public venues where anyone can see your personal information.
>Unwanted comments, spam, and even inappropriate content can be posted
>or linked onto any blog pages and then when "grandma" goes to view my
>pages she get to read the crap that other people posted or she
>wonders when did my grandson go from "cruising in Mexico"
>to "cruising the sex trade" because of the links someone added to my
>pages. And you can't do much about it either. There are other horror
>stories too. Why in the world would you want the whole world aka the
>world wide web to think well, here is another rich yachtie off
>enjoying the good life and KNOW that you are 3000 miles from home and
>they can trak you on the map day by day. There are stories of
>cruiser's return to the states to find houses robbed, cars stolen,
>and identities plucked. It's ugly.
>
>We all want to stay in touch but using a private secure network is
>the only way to communicate with those YOU want to share information
>with and Sailtrac was designed with this in mind. It is a new venue
>designed to fill a niche and keep you, your information, and your
>privacy safe and secure - all for free. It provides all those various
>tools - mapping, journal, video, photos, and position reporting (and
>remote updating!) all consolidated into one secure package. No spam,
>no unwanted comments, and no public intrusion. If you are blogging
>in this group then you have probably participated in other "crusing"
>groups and know that some have degenerated into other types
>of "cruising" topics. Don't make your friends and family view
>inappropriate junk when checking in on your progress. When you
>communicate with friends and family do it from a safe environment.
>
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