At 18:26 09-05-2002 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > > Again I disagree. It is no more of a threat than the existence of on-line > > archives. People seem to fear that messages on a Wall of Shame will be > > read out of context. Well, the exact same thing can happen with messages > > in on-line archives. Therefore, you should be equally opposed to the > > existence of such archives, and demand that (in our case) Yahoogroups.com > > and Mail-archive.com remove their Brin-L archives, and demand that the > > Great Brin-L Archive never be put on-line. > > >So.........the intent of the archives at those sites is to shame people? >I dont think so.
That is not what I said. Those archives do not exist to shame people, but they offer the opportunity to read single posts out of context and thus give a wrong impression of someone. Therefore, if people are opposed to a Wall of Shame they should also be opposed to the existence of on-line archives. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
