Hello All, My only concern with allowing the entire world as we know it an inner peek at our discussions, is the "safety" factor. If I remember correctly, upon initially signing up for various groups, I had to send an email to the moderator explaining why I wanted to join and what I would bring to the group(beer and salsa:). I would assume this is done with the purpose of screening out spammers and other undesireables. I did join knowing full well that this was not the Priory of Sion, the Masonics, etal. But....we have all posted some relatively close personal information that any old wacko trolling Google could see and decide he takes a dislike to i.e. "Some Zen priest in Las Cruces is a pacifist and I hate pacifist". With what little info our resident priest has given, it would be no issue for this wacko to track him down. Many of us have exchanged information in posts about what states we reside in, our family members, our likes and dislikes, all of which is more that enough to start "profiling" someone. I work in a school district where this type of thing is becoming a real problem. Up to this point it has been a game of "cat and mouse" between the school district, teen students putting all there info on "My Space", Police and the offending wackjobs. I would hate for something to happen to someone. The other option would be to self edit all our posts for all possible identifying information, before submittal. I can surmise most posts would be pretty "vanilla", an example being: "Hi, I would tell you my name, but I cant. I would talk about my personal likes and dislikes, but can't out of fear of giving you identifiable information. I would love to chat Zen with you, but that might allow you a piece of information you could profile me with."
Alan(OOPs!, Damn, personal information again:) --- Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Dave" <repressed hostility and mindless > blather>it sure seems > obnoxious in so > far as most people Don't know, and also, since > currently 2 to 1 don't want > to reveal their naked Dharma to the googling world > without their knowledge. > Jeeeshhh..> > > Grow up and get over it. > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today! Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
