Posted by fi on January 22, 2002, at 9:55:17
In reply to Re: Posting of email addresses » Rick, posted by tina on January 22, 2002, at 9:11:31
My reasons are:
1. I dont have the time/interest/tech ability to set up another email account that is anonymous.
2. There are *millions* of people out there with access to the messages we post on the Board. This will be helpful for some, but remember not all are nice people.
Heard about the 13 year old whose mother worked in ER? She managed to get her mother's login/password to access hospital records, and rang up various ex-patients, pretending she was from the hospital, and told them they were HIV positive (they werent)?
Once someone gets a message with an email, they can use that in both directions: its often easy to find out a lot about someone once you have an email address, and if they bother to read all the messages an individual has posted to the Board in the past, they will gather some very personal information.
I'm not saying this *will* happen with a non-anonymous email, just that it is a risk.
I liked Dr Bob's idea (if I have understood it) that there could be some way of setting up something so you could be emailed by Board members, whilst staying anonymous. The alternative would be emailing him to ask him to send an email address to someone, but I see that's not fair as he has enough to do already.
Fi
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