Re: (ET) Reply to E-bay Insanity

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Thanks David.  Well said.

Dave
Weymouth MA


On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:01:02 -0400 "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
writes:
> I'm not the sysop, and this isn't really my place here - but perhaps 
> this is 
> a good time to remind folks that when you hit the SEND button or 
> key, your 
> words go out and hang in the air forever.
> 
> Uncle Sam is listening, but only in the most cursory sense.  Others 
> may be 
> listening much more keenly, and perhaps not for reasons that you 
> approve of.
> 
> If you've never done so, sometime when you're bored type your name 
> and/or 
> your email address into a search engine.  I guarantee you'll be 
> surprised - 
> possibly unpleasantly.  If nothing else, it makes for a very 
> interesting 
> evening's reading.
> 
> Now think about this : those words will still be out there in a 
> year, 5 
> years, 20 years, maybe 50 years or more.
> 
> Most internet mailing lists and forums are archived.  Some of them 
> are 
> stored for indefinite periods in one or several public places on the 
> net.  
> Many or most of them reside in tens or hundreds of thousands of 
> private 
> places (the disk drives of individuals' computers).  What I type 
> now, and 
> everything that you have typed to this list - it's all out there, 
> writ large 
> for all to see.
> 
> Think before you send : would I want a potential or current 
> employer, one of 
> my heirs, an angry subordinate, a private investigator, a jealous 
> romantic 
> or business rival, a murderous or larcenous criminal, a stalker, a 
> new mate 
> or old spouse or former lover to read this?  
> 
> OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.  Thanks for reading.
> 
> 
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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