On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Shoba Narayan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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..... I'd agree with you. Another point....on the egroups/mailing lists I moderate, I make it a point to put out a list of all the members, updating periodically, so that everyone knows who else is on the list. It is my beef that with Silklist, esp with the dozens of lurkers, I have no clue who else is on the list (even with closed privacy settings, a membership of hundreds would make those settings meaningless.) We've already had some issues with this, with some people objecting very strongly to others posting on certain email ids..... I think it's worth finding out what the privacy settings are, when you join a group/mailing list...but in general, I assume that whatever I write/post on the net IS public "writing on the wall". Private posts/emails just need that control-C/control-V, you know, to be sent onwards. I still cannot understand, for instance what "protected posts" are on LJ....when cut-and-paste can just whip the veil off. Deepa.
