[blparent] message about list privacy

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,
No, actually if you do a google search or a search on newshound or dogpile 
you can find posts to this list.  I tried it once for curiosity, and Paul 
tried looking for me when we were first getting to know each other.

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] message about list privacy


> They are public to others, but they can only be found at the NFB website 
> and thus, these people would have to look here.  I would suppose that only 
> those interested in blindness issues would be looking here.  Anyway, this 
> is the way I look at the world. 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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