Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the weblog?

[annegentle at austin.rr.com]

Kendall and all,
I have an article written as part of a membership drive and I think this
month is the perfect month to post it. If the attachment doesn't work,
please let me know. (I don't believe the digest format allows the
attachments to go through, so I'm sending this email directly to
Kendall's email address in addition to the Admin discussion list.)

A periodic article such as this could be an alternative to posting
monthly membership reports on the website. Aaron's suggestion is closer
to the type of information a member might want to have, although just
joining a group shouldn't mean that everyone has access to your email
address just by visiting a blog page. The scenario I envision is this:
with the new member's name, an interested STC member can log on to
stc.org and get their contact info if that person has allowed themselves
to be listed in the member directory. I guess my overall sense is that
the STC office already has put filters in place for how much private
info and what type of contact information a member wants to give out,
and we should ensure those filters remain in place. Does that make sense?

In addition, I'm sensitive to my name as a byline due to the fact that I
am a corporate blogger for BMC, and I want to be sure everything on the
Internet is indeed something I wrote for an intended audience. You can
read my blog at http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-gentle/anne-gentle/. If I
contribute a membership report, I'd like post it myself if that's
do-able. Otherwise I feel am risking the credibility of my online blog
authorship. In my mind, it's, well, fake to have Kendall posting on my
behalf. So, if we come up with a membership report format that is
appropriate for the blog, I'd like to post it. 

Please, let me know if we can use this article on the blog, and send me
edits or corrections if you have them. Kendall, let's talk about posting
this after a review period of this week. I'll send a final version to
you on Friday (Jan. 13).

Thanks,
Anne 

----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron DaMommio <aaron at damommio.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:25 pm
Subject: [stc-austin-admin] Re: Discuss: no e-mail addrs in the weblog?

> Anne,
> What if, with every membership report, you separated out the first 
> (very 
> short) paragraph of general info, for explicit use in the weblog? 
> And 
> reported the prior month's membership as well?
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> ===For weblog===
> In December, the membership increased to 223 from a November total 
> of 
> 213. The STC as a whole has 17176 members.
> ===For contacting new members====
> ....e-mail details...
> 
> 
> 
> annegentle at austin.rr.com wrote:
> 
> >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 
> address>owners. 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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