Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the weblog?

[jhgough at austin.rr.com]

Anne, it's best to think of the blog as the replacement for the 
newsletter--we have historically published membership info in the 
newsletter.  

Perhaps you can work out a posting format that works for you. 

John

----- Original Message -----
From: annegentle at austin.rr.com
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:41 pm
Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Re: Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the weblog?

> I definitely don't think it's appropriate to post email addresses 
> to a
> public web page such as a blog without asking permission of the 
> addressowners. Nor is it appropriate to repost something that I 
> wrote without
> my permission or knowledge. Kendall, I'd like you to remove the post,
> please. I hope you understand the reasoning here. 
> 
> Let me know if you have something else in mind for a membership 
report
> that would be useful to the other members. I think you have a 
> nugget of
> an idea here, but I'd like to look at other methods for communicating
> this type of info to the chapter (and the entire Internet). 
> 
> Thanks,
> Anne
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aaron DaMommio <aaron at damommio.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:27 pm
> Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the weblog?
> 
> > Hey, I hope Kendall and Anne won't feel picked on about this 
> one, 
> > but I 
> > just saw the post on the weblog  re: the membership report from 
> > Anne 
> > (yea! 223 members!) and I don't think we should include new 
> > members' 
> > e-mail addresses in the weblog in that manner. I think it was 
> > appropriate for the admin list, but not for a weblog, where spam 
> > bots 
> > could collect their e-mails. So I think we should make it a 
> policy 
> > not 
> > to list them that way. What do you think, Kendall? I bet you 
> just 
> > wanted 
> > to share Anne's news with all and sundry, but this problem 
> occurred 
> > to 
> > me when I saw the post.
> > 
> > If we do decide to include them, then I think we should modify 
> them 
> > (put 
> > them in the form name AT server.com rather than name at server.com) 
> so 
> > that 
> > they are not automatically detected by e-mail harvesters.).
> > 
> > --Aaron
> > 
> > 
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