For some time I have been getting large amounts of spam. Recently it has included a lot of salacious stuff. I simply delete this, but I am aware it may also be going to young people who access this and other bike bulletin boards.
If you are posting, while ttwebsite has always wanted you to put your email address, so we know you are genuine, I would like to suggest you do something else.
Please fill in your profile...see the top of the page for this...and then, instead of your email address, just give us your username. This way you will not be targeted by the spam merchants, but we will know it is you.
It would be much harder for them to access every profile individually. I think they have software which simply lifts every address off the bulletin board and adds it to their mailing list. I get some stuff at least a dozen times, so they are constantly re-collecting our addresses.
Keep posting on the board, but be aware that all such boards are trawled by these creeps. This is completely outside the control of ttwebsite or the other sites. Ttwebsite never pass on your details to anyone unless you ask us to.