Beau wrote (among other things): ) I understand and support Allan Wallace's complaint that some of our YahooGroup postings were shared in other communities without permission. Some members of OL may have legitimate trepidations about someone finding out that they subscribe, so I support our no-sharing policy. (
Ohmigod, I confess it had never occurred to me that members might (of course!) have some privacy concerns about being identified as belonging to the forum (whose archives are after all public). That's what I get for being a Bay Area Libertarian for so long! That's a completely reasonable justification for a policy of not identifying members outside the forum, but that's not what Allan complained about, nor was it mentioned in the guidelines. I will of course refrain from identifying outside the forum anybody who I could possibly suspect does not want his membership status made public. Thanks for your support, and feel free to forward this confession of obtuseness you see fit.
