Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership List

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Good morning, Danny:

It is not true that members are prevented from contacting each other by
email.  That argument would only apply if a member had never posted.  When
someone posts to this list, her email address is know, and any one may
respond on-list or privately.

If a member has never posted, why would anyone want to contact them, other
than for spamming reasons.

Furthermore, if a thousand (or 10,000 or 100,000) members are listed with
their name and email address, how long do you think it would take for that
list to be captured and sold, many times over?

Ron Sherwood
----- Original Message -----
From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
To: <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>; <micheal@beethoven.com>;
<atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership List


> Joop writes:
>
> << Members should be free not to have their email address public and this
is
>  part of our current privacy policy. >>
>
> I disagree.  This is not a membership-voted-upon policy; it is a policy
that
> you unilaterally established as the webmaster for icannatlarge.com -- you
did
> not provide any opt-in possibility that allows members to consent to the
> publication of their e-mail contact address.
>
> Members should be free to contact other members to discuss issues of
mutual
> concern.  You have imposed unnecessary impediments to such interaction by
> denying the membership such an opt-in opportunity in the registration
process.
>
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