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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:36:30 +0530
From: Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [silk] Diaspora
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On 15-Dec-10 12:31 PM, Xxxrum wrote:
We should start a beer garden called "LURK" :))
Shoba, I think this is your cue to post the rant you said you were
planning to, about lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives. :)
Udhay
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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Recently, I googled Arundhati Roy, for no reason :) and discovered
that the posts I had made about her on Silk were in the public
domain. I strongly protested when I met Udhay at the Bangalore Silk
Meet. Heated discussion ensued. Someone spilled beer and all was
forgotten.
But I want to find out if anyone else on this list shares my views.
When I was invited into Silk by Dr. Shiv Sastry maybe two years ago,
I didn't realize that all its archives were in the open domain.
Now that I know this, I might hibernate into a lurker.
It is one thing to say crazy/funny stuff to a group of people, albeit
a large and largely unknown one, but within a "closed" setting, but
it is quite another to say something for anyone to see.
Since Udhay said that he "feels strongly" about this, let me start by
stating that I too feel very strongly about this group's privacy
settings
Shoba
