idg.net.nz --- IMHO privacy implications of archives are debatable (Paul Brislen)
In light of recent comments WRT a certain IDG article I find: http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/EA33E2992D04A5C0CC256A9E0010FACC!open... Ah, internet. Bane and boon of my life. What would I do without you, dear old friend? Well, for a start, I wouldn't be following a language tutor's advice quite so often. He told me there are two steps to learning a foreign language. Step one: open mouth. Step two: insert foot. [...] Most entertaining of all, however, is that when I rewrote the story for Computerworld it changed the story as it appears on the web. The old version ("Newsgroups could be breaching privacy act") was effectively replaced with a new one ("Privacy issue over mailing list archives") in a single Orwellian moment. Ironic, really, when you consider the story in the first place was triggered by a question about whether an archive could or should be changed to remove old postings. Pretty reasonable comments this time, certainly worth reading. --cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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Chris Wedgwood