Miata Mailing List: November 1996, Message #254
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   From: Mike Lastort 

Subject: Re: Private Postings

   Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:46:16 -0500



Larry Alster wrote:



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>I don't know how some of you can't see the point.  How would you like it if you had a private

>telephone conversation with someone and that person went outside with a megaphone, stood

>on the busiest corner of your town, and screamed the text of your talk to everyone that went >by.

>

>IT'S THE SAME THING!!!!



If I'm talking to someone on the phone, telling them about my trials and

tribulations, I know and trust that person. If this person decided to do

what you suggest, then guess what? I wouldn't talk to them anymore!



> As far as you folks that have the attitude that nothing is private because it is on the AIR

> we are not talking spying here. We are talking a willful betrayal of a trust.



Bottom line is, trusting someone you've never met face-to-face with

private, personal information, is the height of naivete'. I would never

tell someone I met only from the Internet or a BBS anything that I would

not want to be publicly declared. I've been on-line in one form or

another since about '89. I have never, ever, written a message to

someone I did not personally know that could be potentially damaging to

me. The way the net works, there's no way to know who you're writing to.

The person behind the keyboard is anonymous. You don't even know their

gender (look at Leigh/Larry!!). I've met friends throught BBSes and the

Net, and only after I got to know these people "off-line" would I ever

feel comfortable sharing private infomation with them on-line. It's a

pretty simple strategy that I can hearily recommend.





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