Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership List

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Ron and all fellow members,

Ron Sherwood wrote:

> 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.

  I think you mean, "When someone posts to this list, her email address
is KNOWN, and any one may respond on-list or privately."

  BTW, most reasonably intelegent folks have more than one
E-Mail address.  Some use a business E-Mail address seperately
from a non-business E-Mail address.

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

  Maybe just to chat?  Or to strike up a relationship of some kind?
Or to see if they actually alive?  Ect., Ect., .....

>
>
> 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?

  Never has happened to INEGRoup members yet.  Berhaps it
shall some day, but hasn't happened yet.

>
>
> 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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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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