Since this conversation has nothing to do with the user-part of openoffice 
anymore I would like to suggest that you fight this dispute somewhere else but 
not on this mailinglist.

Arnold Huzen


> 
> van: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> datum: 2006/09/19 Tue PM 12:09:18 CEST
> aan: <[email protected]>
> onderwerp: Re: [users] A warning before posting
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:05 AM [GMT+1=CET], Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Replies inserted.
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Okay mister EXPERT prove that what I wrote is not factual or
> >> accurate!  People like you usually check out hazards before they
> >> become victims, what is your excuse?
> > 
> > 1.  Your preposterous claim that:
> > 
> >>> If you have a computer and connect to the outside world you just
> > gave up your privacy with regard to what you do while connected
> > to the outside world. <<
> > 
> > Now I've spent a lot of time on the internet and this is the first
> > I've heard of that rule.  Who made it?  M$?  Or one of the other
> > corporations that want to own the net?  Or maybe a cabal of all the
> > corporations?
> 
>  The fact that you haven't heard of this before simply indicates that you 
> don't read newpapers, journals, periodicals, or books and that you don't 
> watch television or listen to the radio or go to the cinema. It is basically 
> impossible to live in the late 20th / early 21st centuries without coming 
> into contact with the fact that the internet and the web (which, by the way, 
> are not the same) compromise privacy to a very great extent.
> 
> > 
> > Maybe it was the CIA?
> > 
> > "People like" me?  Why am I bothering to answer someone who thinks
> > ranting is reasoning?
> > 
> > 2.  The extremely extravagant claim that:
> > 
> >>> Every thing you do on your computer
> > through any outside connection is recorded and is basically
> > publically accessable to any one. <<
> > 
> > Do the banks know that?  Do the corporate executives know it?
> 
> Yes !!! The banks know it. Corporate executives know it. 14 year old children 
> know it. And many of them can exploit it.
> 
> > 
> > So you know, or are able to discover, everything I've ever done on the
> > internet?
> > 
> > 3.  The sweeping claim:
> > 
> >>> Having the header information
> > of an e-mail is no big deal. <<
> > 
> > I wouldn't raise the issue if there was nothing in the public
> > information that I don't want publicised.
> > 
> > My email provider is looking into it.
> 
> If your e-mail provider intends to run a standard e-mail system then there is 
> nothing it can do about it. That's the way the internet e-mail system is 
> designed and has been since day one. Go and read the RFCs
> 
> > 
> > It would serve OpenOffice right if it found itself on the receiving
> > end of litigation for breach of privacy, unauthorised publication and
> > non-disclosure of terms.  And any other available cause of action.
> > 
> > 4.  This weird statement:
> > 
> >>> If you do not want people to know
> > who you are or what you are doing or where you are going with
> > your computer don't connect to the outside world. <<
> > 
> > Now you're going to tell me that you know who I am, what I'm doing and
> > where I'm going.
> > 
> > And you've got the same information at your fingertips for everyone
> > else who has ever been so foolish as to "connect to the outside
> > world"? 
> > 
> >> Just for your benefit I will post the header from the e-mail that
> >> you sent your latest reply.  you can find it at the bottom of
> >> this post.  Any time you send any communication to any one all
> >> the information about where that file was is in the e-mail
> >> header.  Every computer that was used to send that e-mail to the
> >> destination has the information.  < snip >
> > 
> > What on earth does that have to do with OpenOffice
> > (a) publishing that stuff on the web and
> > (b) neglecting to warn anyone beforehand that it intended taking that
> > extremely unusual, unnecessary and inconsiderate action?
> > 
> > I'm not complaining about recipients of my emails knowing whatever
> > they can find out from my emails.
> > 
> > I'm complaining about one of them (supposedly a community
> > organisation) telling the whole world.
> > 
> >> I know a lot more about this sort of thing than you think I do.
> >> The government where you and I live has the ability to monitor
> >> every thing you and I do and they use it.
> > 
> > Yes.  Well, paranoia's all that keeps me going as well.
> > 
> > To make the point again.  I'm not complaining about the government
> > knowing anything.  I'm not complaining about recipients of my emails
> > knowing anything.  I'm not complaining about OpenOffice knowing
> > anything. 
> > 
> > I'm pointing out (that's all) that OpenOffice, without a word of
> > warning, is publishing that information on the web and doing so
> > unnecessarily and for the possible benefit only of those who would
> > misuse the information.
> > 
> > It's interesting to me (and that's all) that anyone can be so
> > benighted as to believe that is an appropriate way for a community
> > organisation to behave.
> 
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