Given the size of silklist I don't say anything I wouldn't say to a person's face
That would still not stop me from expressing some degree of contempt for ms.roy though -- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Shoba Narayan <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:31:39 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [silk] Lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:36:30 +0530 > From: Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [silk] Diaspora > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 > -- > ((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
