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There was a post by me now deleted and maybe another that had nothing to do with tractors or the discussion where they were posted. They were comments made by me as part of a discussion on another site. I did not accidentally paste the content into this board's pop up reply window and send it. I remember wondering why the Tractor Point pop up reply appeared on my screen right after posting on the other board.
I may well have left a pop up reply window open while I went on to other things. However, it seems that under some conditions, the pop up window has the capacity to divert content from another board's reply window and post it here. The other board did not receive the post I sent using their reply window.
Seems like this is something everybody who participates here should be aware of.
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Dennis: I wouldn't believe the site has any such software either. Although my computer is conventionally well protected, who knows what is running and how they might interact. I do use the same screen name on both sites.
The other site I mentioned is the Guardian Unlimited, the site of a large British daily newspaper. I composed a post on their reply screen, copied it into MS Word for editing, recopied it back to the Guardian screen and posted it. The TractorPoint reply window popped up on my screen without any apparent action on my part. I later found that the post appeared on TractorPoint but not on the Guardian site. I think it's likely that I was going to post on TractorPoint but was distracted and left an empty pop up reply window open while posting on the Guardian.
Fortunately I do not post anything anywhere that I would not wish to be public. For myself, taking care to close unused TractorPoint reply windows is likely sufficient for my needs.
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Sounds like Tractor experienced what I did. I use Ad-alert rather than Spy-bot, and fairly regularly. I suppose it only takes one of those data miner things though. I'm not sure my computer will tolerate any more monitoring of traffic than it already has. I imagine that virus plus firewall monitoring already degrade performance.
I'll avoid a rant on the subject since everybody likely knows the words by heart. I believe I will take care to only leave one talk board at a time open.
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