Re: ambit public or private?

[Chris Byrne]

I don't think anybody has posted anything to search engines. But if information is on the web, search engines pick it up by indexing web sites using programs called 'spiders' or 'robots'.

There are however anti-spam measures in place on the free web archive service which hosts the ambit list archive. Read the faq at http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html

It's unfortunate that you've unwittingly experienced one of the drawbacks of the 'networked society'. Yes privacy is an issue, but it's also an issue when you walk down the street or forget to draw the blind on the window. The various networks that form the Internet in general and lists in particular are public spaces, and it's sensible vto treat it accordingly.

Chris

At 10:33 am +0000 6/12/01, adinda van 't klooster wrote:

Well,

obviously some people know far better what technology or these kind of lists are all about... Obviously if someone with the means wants to know about you, they will find out. This is different, because for a website or in this case message to come up after doing a search at a search engine, someone has to have posted the site or database to the searchengine with certain keywords. This means the ambit list/database has been posted to some searcheniges with as keywords the names of the people writing to it. If I had known this I would not have included my address and phonenumber. I'm already flooded with junk mail, both through post and through email. If you want to talk about the bigger picture this is 1. a waste of trees and 2. it helps those who trade names and adresses for purely commercial purposes.

That aside, Ray Kurzweil in The Age of Spiritual Machines predicted that one of the most debated issues in the 21st century is going to be privacy. It's part of the technology debate. Adinda
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