On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Shoba Narayan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Does everything you say have to be crazy? The List is known to the world merely as a place for "Intelligent Conversation", after all. > 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 It is very unfortunate that you went so long without realizing the public nature of the archives. I am keen to understand how much of your strong reaction is purely due to your shock from said realization, and how much from a belief that it would improve the quality of interaction on the list? I would like to believe the tenor of conversation would have been quite different if the list had been closed from day one. For e.g. it's possible there would have been less 'elite' or "snob" quotient in the whole business. Of course, I am curious to hear Udhay's strong views for keeping the list open.
