COPYRIGHT NOTICE
AND PRIVACY POLICY
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE

The entire contents of this website, including HTML code, are copyright 2002-2004 by the North Suburban Youth Baseball Association (NSYBA). All rights reserved. NSYBA personnel, relevant park district personnel, team managers, team coaches, players, parents, relatives and friends may print out and distribute information on this website for their personal use only, provided no charge is made for doing so. Members of the press are welcome to use information when reporting on NSYBA events and games.

PRIVACY POLICY

The webmaster, who is sick and tired of telemarketers and spam emailers himself,  has taken pains to keep this website as private as possible:

  • The webmaster has not registered this website with Google, Lycos, Yahoo, MSN or any other internet search engine or service. However, at last check on November 4, 2002, the ever-so-thorough Google search engine had discovered us. But we only appear in a Google search if a searcher keys in "North Suburban Youth Baseball Association" in the "exact phrase" advanced search function. 

  • The internet service provider which hosts this website (www.stormwire.com), in addition to providing reliable service at a competitive rate (unsolicited endorsement), does not insert spyware, adware, grunge-ware, pop-up ads or other undesirable programs. Neither will the webmaster. 

  • As a spam test, the webmaster only uses the scores@nsyba.org (before that, NSYBAscore@ync.net) email address here, and it's plastered all over this website. As of November 1, 2004, three full years later, the webmaster had received exactly 68 spam emails addressed to scores@nsyba.org (or the old and now defunct NSYBAscore@ync.net). Nearly all were baseball-related. That's less than two spams per month. 

  • As a further discouragement against spammers harvesting email addresses, nearly all of the forms and printouts are now in Adobe Acrobat Reader format, which makes harvesting of email addresses a little more difficult. If the team web page doesn't have much contact information about a manager or coach, click on the "Team Schedule" link.

  • Given the explosion of email harvesting schemes and spam, as of the 2003 Fall Ball season, the webmaster enables "live" email links only during the current season plus a couple of weeks before and after. A "live" email link looks like this: ballsandstrikes@aol.com. It's in bold type and, following the convention of this website, it is denoted as a "live" link by being dark green. A "dead" email link looks like this: ballsandstrikes at aol dot com. While it's in bold type, it's in brown, I've replaced the "@" sign with "at" and I've replaced punctuation marks with their spelled out names (for instance, "dot" for "." and "hyphen" for "-").  The parsers in most of the email harvesting 'bots that incessantly crawl the internet aren't sophisticated enough to fix and harvest such email addresses. It's easy enough for a real, live human to restore the email address: simply copy-n-paste it into an email window and rewrite it.

Many NSYBA personnel, managers and coaches have allowed their phone numbers and/or email addresses to be posted on this website for the convenience of all concerned. None is at all interested in receiving phone calls from telemarketers or spam email.

The webmaster, as the system admin, can access the email address of everyone who has registered on our Talk Baseball! discussion forum. But he will not release this information to anyone, including other officers of the NSYBA. And that data is encrypted in the online database and thus is relatively immune to hackers looking for valid email addresses to spam.

Please feel free to email the webmaster without fear of winding up on a spam list. At the conclusion of each season, the webmaster purges his email folder of all addresses which are not on the NSYBA personnel and league official roster.

WORD TO THE WISE: Never, ever, click on a link in a spam email! Especially, don't click on a "remove" link. And don't ever send a "remove" email in response to a spam, even though most suggest you do so. It just tells the spammer that your email address actually exists. Then it gets sold and resold and resold.

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