Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:08:42 09/13/00
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On September 12, 2000 at 19:13:49, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. I have no problem with the fact that people have my email address. I think that most of the people here have the same opinion and they may see it only as an advantage because they can get more information from people by email. I think that it is a good idea to let people to have their email address not attached to their messages but in this case they should ask for it because the default assumption is that people who post here have no problem with revealing their email address. Uri
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