On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It is not entirely inconceivable that the same philosophy extends to > sharing a mail account with not-particularly-technophile friends who want to > dip into a list without committing to it. > > I don't see why he should be answerable for this any more than anyone > should be for their social life.
What makes me uncomfortable is not that there is a shared mail account and shared subscriptions, but that people on the list/s subscribed to should be kept unaware of it. Even on silk (on going through the archives), the 'list cafe' nature was revealed only when Udhay questioned it (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/23749), while tbd was pretending to want to follow protocol about quoting some of the messages to his "friends". Heh. While all the time there could have been many "friends" reading the posts using that subscription. (Of course, like it was pointed out, since it's a publicly archived list, access to the posts is not difficult. I just want to emphasise the pretense.) It's different from sharing a toothbrush, a pillow or an ice-cream. They do not form your interface to the world. -- - Hassath
