Re: Gen: Privacy Drawback...

[Dan Robinson Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

I think Earl was referring to the practice of dropping individual's
names and email addresses from HITS. You can go back to the archives
for some fairly long discussions  on this.  It does make it hard to
response to an individual in a hit, if there is no name or address. I
also feel that posters have to use discretion with the summary if the
topic  is controversial.

Dan Robinosn
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

On  4 May 98 at 11:03, Kathryn Frech wrote:

> Earl J. Moniz  (earlj@moniz.org) wrote:
>
> >  An example of one of the major drawbacks for all this
> > privacy stuff on our own listserv is that I wanted to ask
> > this person his or her definition of SDI without having to
> > respond to the entire listserv and wasting the time and
> > space of those who know what it is ... and I do not mean
> > to imply that the person who wrote this response is in any
> > way at fault for the current situation.
>
>
> I don't understand the problem - isn't that exactly why we're
> all asked to include our email addresses with our sigs,to make
> sure individual correspondence _is possible? If the poster
> didn't include an email address, as you and I did, that's really
> a singular problem, not a problem with the system as a whole.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> Kathryn Frech, Librarian
> Seton Catholic Central H.S.
> Binghamton, NY  13905
> (lib@stny.lrun.com)
>
>

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