It appears there are 1 or 2 spammers harvesting the anonymous email links on our sites and then sending spam to them. From what we can see most of this is ending up in spam/junk email boxes and not reaching your inbox but to be proactive we will be encoding these email links (I will post when this has been completed). What does this mean? Well, for one the link will more than likely say “click here to respond to this ad” rather than pers-####@thedatelist.com as it does now.

Now comes the question of using web based email clients like Yahoo as there is no longer an email address to copy and paste into your Yahoo email. Until a feasible solution is found you will need to click the link which will open the email client on your PC and then copy the email address from there. While that is not an ideal solution it will keep the spammers at bay for now. We will continue to work to make a better solution to this. It may also be in your benefit to use Gmail and have that email read by your email client on your PC and also allowing you to respond to ads using your Gmail email address without having to copy an paste.

To get a Gmail account click on this link - www.gmail.com. For explanation of how to get your mail on your PC using Gmail do the following - create the email account > login to the email account > click on settings > click on the Forwarding and POP tab > select Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on > click save changes. Also, on the Forwarding and POP page you will see a link for configuration instructions - click on it and then select the email client you have on your PC to configure it to get the mail from Gmail.

The testing is finished. The updates are being added to the site. College Date List and Gay Date List updates are complete. The Date List will be next to be updated. If you experience any site issues this is why. The update includes:

Switching the email system for responses to an anonymous pass thru system. We will no longer be keeping responses on the site they will be forwarded to your email acct. Responses to ads in place on the site before this change will be kept on the site for 90 days so you may view them. After that they will be deleted and all new replies are being forwarded to you as of today.

Ads must be confirmed before going live on the site. Once you place an ad on TDL, GDL or CDL you are sent an email with a confirmation link. For you ad to show on the site you need to click on the link or copy the confirmation code and paste it into the box on the site that shows once you have posted your ad.

We have enabled a flagging system. If you find an ad that is not compliant with the site, see someone posting ad after ad, find a spam ad or find an ad that is not within the guidelines you can now flag it for removal. The amount of people flagging it takes for an ad to be removed varies and you can only flag an ad once so there is no need to sit there and flag the same ad over and over as it does nothing after the 1st flag from you.

Personal ads on the site can now be edited. Made a mistake? Want to change something? The body of the ad can now be edited. All you have to do is go to your ad, click the edit link below the ad, enter the password emailed to you when you posted the ad then change what you need to.

The logo is now clickable and takes you back to the home page.

Ads can be auto-reposted every 7 days, 30 days or if you choose not at all. When posting an ad you now have this choice on the post an ad page.

THANK YOU to everyone that helped with this update. THANK YOU to all the users of our sites. It is our goal to make this site what you want while at the same time making it as easy to use as possible.

For the simplicity of it in the coming weeks I will be making some video tutorials to show you how to navigate and best make use of the site. For starters there will be 3 videos: Basic site navigation, how to post an ad and password recovery.

If you have any other suggestions for video tutorials please submit them by clicking on this link - contact us