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

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

Shaun Hately wrote:

>On 22 Jan 2004 at 0:18, Przemyslaw Plaskowicki wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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Good point. I didn't thought about that.

>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.
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>And there are *lots* of reasons some people do this - some good and 
>justified, some not.
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Nevertheless, it never have been a concern for me. My full name gets 
over 400 hits on Google Web and 500 hits on Google Groups, all (or 
almost all) are my posts to various fora. I just don't care, and I guess 
some people on HP4GU don't care either.

Regards,


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Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905)