[HANASHIR:16031] Re: ARCHIVES AND PRIVACY

[Sholom Simon <sholom...>]

Might this be a case of: the cat's already out of the bag?

I.e., the information that this stranger got took me 3 seconds to get via
google.

-- Sholom

> Last night I was dismayed to be disturbed by a late night telephone call
>  from a complete stranger from another city and time zone who had a
> question  regarding the song "L'chi Lach". He found my name and
> telephone number in  the signature of a message I must have sent to
> Hanashir over 5 years ago.   He is evidently not a list member, but was
> doing a search through the  Hanashir archives.
> Not realizing that my message would be available to people off the list,
> I  mistakenly included personal contact information.
>
> I do wonder if it is necessary to make every message that was ever sent
> to  Hanashir available to anyone cruising the net.  My preference would
> be that  these messages, many of them sent before we became more
> internet-savvy, be  deleted. Over the years I have read many Hanashir
> messages that for various  reasons should not be posted in this way.
> Adrian, can you comment on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rachelle Shubert
>
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-- 
Sholom Simon


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