Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 16:13:49 09/12/00
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On September 12, 2000 at 19:11:19, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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 [my] 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 [CCC] I have to rely on peoples incompetence to >preserve my privacy. It should not be that way.
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