Something that particularly concerns me about the birding-aus archives
is that with open access you're not just looking at people intruding
into your personal details. A "spider" program, commonly used for
search engines but also now used for spam email address collections,
can strip your email address quite easily from any entry in the
archives if it finds them. This is very easily solved by password
protecting the archives.
Chris - Brisbane
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:36:34 +1000, Judith L-A <> wrote:
>
> Peter, it's not about having something to hide, but rather that in some jobs
> there are some people who will intrude with unsolicited approaches, and will
> seek you out with inappropriate demands. It's not about being a birder,
> either -- it is that as a subscriber to birding-aus you become accessible
> via the net to the general public (if you give your full name, contact
> details, etc.)
> Cheers,
> Judith.
>
>
>
>
> This would also get around anyones concerns with privacy... (i dont see what
> people have to hide anyway....is being a birder a high risk hobby???)
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> Judith L-A <>
> Sent by:
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> 09/11/2004 10:36 AM
> To
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> cc
> Subject
> Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Un-named Observers
>
>
> I do agree with this. Though my first name & initials are here, I
> can't put my full name or contact details, as this opens us to
> web-searching. Some of us work in businesses where this is not
> desirable.
> Of course people can invent a 'real' name...
> Judith.
>
> >For various privacy reasons, many feel unwilling to disclose their
> >full name - including myself, especially when archived birding-aus
> >messages by a particular person appear in Google when his/her name
> >is searched for. I'm quite happy to use my first name and initial,
> >however, which I hope is sufficient to prove my authenticity. If
> >anyone really needs to know my full name, they can correspond with
> >me personally.
> >...Regan.
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