[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: ADMIN: Possible Changes to the Main List Settings

[Shaun Hately]

On 22 Jan 2004 at 0:18, Przemyslaw Plaskowicki wrote:

> I respectfully dissent. The relative secrecy of this list is based only 
> on the integrity of over 11,000 people. Very poor protection, I might add.

To me, the difference is that currently posts to the list will not 
come up in a *random* websearch just on a person's name. Yes, 
anybody can get relatively easy access to a person's posts on HPFGU 
- but to do so, they have to know or suspect the person is on 
HPFGU.

Understand, doing searches like this is part of my job at times - a 
list like HPFGU having public archives makes that job an order of 
magnitude easier in many cases, if you are trying to gather 
information on a person.

And there are *lots* of reasons some people do this - some good and 
justified, some not.








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