[HANASHIR:16041] Re: ARCHIVES AND PRIVACY

[Adrian Durlester <adrian...>]

Rachelle:

As Sholom correctly reports, hanashir is but one potential source. A simple
Google search turns up any number of messages you have sent to various
lists, some from 1997 and 1998.

There is no way for me to delete old archives. List owners do not have that
level of control. It's an all or nothing proposition.

I'd say the issue is more with idiots who call perfect strangers late at
night. Shall we deny all of us the usefulness of being able to search the
archives (consider how many times on this list someone has asked about
finding an old message) because of a few mindless folks? Every technology
has its price.

You'd be amazed at how many questions I've fielded from non-list members
over the years, simply because they did an internet search, found the
hanashir web site, or some postings on the list. Not one of them has ever
called me at home late a night. It's all part of being a citizen of the
world, I think.

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
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shamash(dot)org] On
Behalf Of Sholom Simon
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:37 PM
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Cc: shir_chadash (at) hotmail(dot)com
Subject: [HANASHIR:16031] Re: ARCHIVES AND PRIVACY


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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