On Mon, Oct 10, 20054:41 PM, the following words from A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...
> >It has been interesting I found myself minority on this subject. Most >of the user groups, mainly audio engineers in my case, don't want to >have archive public because everyone is afraid of getting quoted outside >of the forum, and you have no control over it. > >You could make mistake by posting wrong info, which you can correct to >small group later, while once such post with wrong info gets high google >hits, which accumulates, you will have hard time chasing it after. > >I did experienced such back in 1997 when I made a wrong statement about >DSP calculation. For the same reason, most of the list members asked >the list owner to move the forum to where it is more protected. > >It seems it was my mistake to assume the same culture applies to most of >the lists like this. > >-- > >- Hiro > I think there are others who have the same opinion about email addresses and public archives of mailing lists. I also think that those who don't care are the ones who haven't had anything negative arise because of public mailings lists - or aren't aware of the potential. I didn't know the list was going to become a public list, or I would have unsubscribed a while back. Now that option has been taken away because the damage is already done. I stopped posting to newsgroups because my spam has increased to fifty percent. Each time I think about posting to some of the mailing lists and forums I belong to, I have to wonder how much negativity will result from each post. I belong to a lot of mailing lists and forums, but I spend much more time lurking than participating these days. It may be an overly cynical opinion considering that I've also been the recipient of job offers through public forums. Unfortunately, they are so few that the negative side effects definitely outweigh the few positive ones. Another side effect that has personally been very damaging is having my identity revealed in a public forum by another member. While there are automated processes in place to extract email addresses, I quickly learned that there are real people spending time reading public forums who also got a real name to use and were able to find other information I did not intend to be public. With identity theft on the rise, I would think more people would be concerned, but as they are not, there are enough of us who are suffering that people should be concerned. cheshirekat -- "I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company." - Thomas Jefferson
