[blparent] message about list privacy
Veronica Smith
madison_tewe at spinn.net
Sat Dec 20 04:58:52 UTC 2008
Thank you for this info. Maybe this answers the question of that nosey
friend. v
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "GILBERT D PADILLA" <gilandelaine at msn.com>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 1:35 PM
Subject: [blparent] message about list privacy
> Hi, all. An incident occurred this week that brought my attention to the
> issue of list privacy, and I thought I'd better let you know about it.
>
> This list is a great forum to discuss topics that are relevant to blind
> parenting, and many of us have shared intimate details about our lives and
> families with each other. To post to the list, you have to subscribe and
> be a member. However, what I didn't fully understand before now is that
> the list archives of past messages are public. Anyone who happens upon
> them while surfing the Internet can browse through and read stored posts,
> sorted by thread, author, subject, or date. This is beneficial because
> people at large may be interested in finding out information about blind
> parenting. That's the point of the list, and it's a good tool for
> educating the public.
>
> Keep in mind, though, that the Internet is accessible to anybody with a
> computer. What happened to me during the past week is that I got an
> e-mail from my mother. Someone who lives in my home town, while searching
> Google, came upon a post I made to the blind parenting list. That post
> from back in May, in which I complained about being tired all the time and
> asked for suggestions on ways to get more energy, got forwarded to my
> mother. She clicked on the link found on the bottom of all the messages,
> which led her to the access page for the list archives. From there, she
> could potentially read everything I had posted during my year and a half
> on the list. I don't know what she has read and what she hasn't, but I
> have to assume that anything and everything I've ever said, some of it
> rather sensitive, is now public knowledge, to her if not to others in my
> family.
>
> I haven't posted anything in the last eighteen months that I wouldn't
> defend as the truth, but I didn't necessarily consider that my mother, or
> any other random person on the Internet, would be reading my messages.
> The moral of the story is, while it's nice to have a place to vent and to
> ask and answer questions, always remember that since the list archives are
> public, they can be read by anyone who comes across them. It might not
> happen often, but be aware before you send an e-mail to the list that your
> mother or your best friend or your nosy neighbor down the street might
> eventually read it.
>
> Thanks for listening,
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care of
> what you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
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