Doug:

 

How would you feel if you knew that some law firm considering a lawsuit against 
your company, was searching for everything you might have said over the past 20 
years, for evidence of utterances that might support their version of some item 
of contention? Or perhaps somebody was filing a complaint against your company, 
for reasons completely unrelated to you, but they searched for evidence of a 
“hostile corporate work environment” and found you making a joke about their 
purported sadness in 2007?

 

I could see that one bad experience like that might make corporate legal 
departments put a chill on all participation in openly searchable forums like 
EMC-PSTC.

 

I think what I’m saying is that I like the idea of my peers being able to 
search our archives, but beyond that, I see only liabilities.

 

Ed Price
WB6WSN
Chula Vista, CA USA

 

From: Doug Powell [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] Public view of this email server?

 

I have watched this conversation for a few days and now I am beginning to 
wonder what is all the angst about.  

 

I have been a member of the forum since about 1995 and the publically 
searchable archive is something I have used since the beginning. I find it very 
useful and have never assumed any level of privacy is expressed or implied. It 
is up to the individuals who make use of the forum to monitor their own 
privacy.  Spam is generally not a problem but has occurred on occasion. In 
those cases a gentle reminder followed by a reprimand from the admins has been 
enough.

 

In many ways this forum is patterned after the old BBSs or news groups (i.e. 
dejanews, yahoo groups) all of which were / are searchable. 

 

Best, Doug

 

 

-- 

 

Douglas E Powell

 

[email protected]

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 

 


From: [email protected]

Sent: November 22, 2016 2:26 PM

To: [email protected]

Reply-to: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [PSES] Public view of this email server?

 

My policy has always been to never put anything in an email that I wouldn’t 
want to see on the front page of the newspaper. It’s served me pretty well so 
far…

 

--

Doug Nix

[email protected]

 

When you put a thing in order, and give it a name, and you are all in accord, 
it becomes.

 

>From the Navajo, Masked Gods, Waters, 1950 

 

On 22-Nov-16, at 15:24, dward <[email protected]> wrote:

 

Or say what you mean and don’t say it if you are afraid you will be embarrassed 
by it.

 

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From: Pete Perkins [ <mailto:[email protected]> 
mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 10:47 AM
To:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] Public view of this email server?

 

Dan et al, 

 

                I hope that everyone realizes that in this day of wikileaks 
that no electronic correspondence is private anymore, whether or not you intend 
it to be.  

                

                In this case we see clearly that the messages are archived and 
searchable – altho some may not have realized that prior to this time.  

 

                Watch what you say – John Woodgate can supply the Latin phrase. 
 

 

:>)     br,      Pete

 

Peter E Perkins, PE

Principal Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs Consultant

PO Box 23427

Tigard, ORe  97281-3427

 

503/452-1201

 

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From: Dan Roman [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 5:34 PM
To:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] Public view of this email server?

 

See the footer attached to every message:

 

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-------- Original message --------
From: "Kortas, Jamison" < <mailto:[email protected]> 
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Date: 11/21/16 1:43 PM (GMT-06:00) 
To:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] 
Subject: [PSES] Public view of this email server? 

Hi All,

 

Maybe I am the only one who didn’t know this, but I found a thread in which I 
had I participated in a Google search. I did not know these emails were public 
in some way, at least enough to be found and indexed by Google.

 

Just an FYI.

 

The thread I found:  
<https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg72464.html> 
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg72464.html

 

-Jamison

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