Subj : FIDO echo privacy
To   : Jim White
From : Joe Nicholson
Date : Mon Nov 17 2003 07:53 am

 -=> Quoting Jim White to George Pope <=-

 GP>> One user has complained, suggesting that it feels like an
 GP>> invasion of privacy to her, to have "non family intruding
 GP>> on our conversations". . .
 
 PB> Kinda strange having an expectation of privacy in an open echo...
 PB> It's not like a private chat room, or email for that matter.

 JW> I wouldn't have even mentioned it here, George.  I first heard about
 JW> this gating/porting of MEMORIES back when Kent Anderson was still
 JW> Moderator, and that was over 3 years ago.  It's a public forum,

 And by being public, it invites newcomers, or non-family
 as someone called it.  How the heck do echoes receive new
 members if they were closed?  How did that person who
 is complaining get to join MEMORIES in the first place?
 She (gender taken from Jim's post) was non-family until
 she read and posted.

 No one should have an expectation of privacy outside their
 home.  Bank cameras, 7-11 cameras, red-light cameras, FOX
 TV at NFL games, none of them are an invasion of privacy.
 If someone has a problem with that, let them spend the rest
 of their life at home, locked up in the bedroom.

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