Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 16:11:19 09/12/00
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On September 12, 2000 at 18:26:13, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On September 12, 2000 at 15:10:08, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On September 11, 2000 at 12:48:37, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>Hello Peter, >>> >>>Enrique's last message was http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?129002 >>>and contains his e_mail address. I would like to tell Enrique the >>>analysis-results of his Mate in Twelve position by now but unfortunately I let >>>Windows and ECTool crash down last night after 174 hours. Created too many fancy >>>new personalities and memory-slurping multi-cilindered engines. Stupid of me! >>> >>>Regards, Eelco >> >>Why did you tell him how to get Enrique's email address? Why not let Enrique >>decide whether he should be able to contact him by email? > >I think that basically comes down to a question of trust. I trust Peter to write >an ever so nice letter to Enrique or he is going to have me to answer to me >personally if I find out about what the heck he is up to now again. And I'm >serious. > >It is part of the way this forum is set up that everybody has to have a working >e-mail address, to sign up to the forum and it is part of all our messages here. >Some matters that come up may better be further discussed by e-mail and it is a >way of being able to check to some extent one anothers identity. Maybe Peter's >question was just a reference to some past exchanges but then again maybe it was >a serious enough question directed to the forum in general. In this case I >thought it deserved a serious enough answer from somebody. If we don't trust one >another enough that we want to stay anonymous to one another and not to be >reached via our e-mail addresses what are we doing here then? > >Thanks, >Eelco It is not a matter of trust. It is a matter of keeping the choice in this case where it belongs: with Enrique. How things are set up is unfortunate and I prefer not to facilitate those to take advantage. I like the idea of people having to use their own names in posts, because it moderates their behavior, but allowing such easy access to peoples email addresses is a bad idea. I want to keep as much control as possible over who gets to use email address. It is easy enough for me to give my email address to those I want to have it. I need no assistance in that regard. At ICC I have to rely on peoples incompetence to preserve my privacy. It should not be that way.
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