Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:20:07 10/07/00
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On October 06, 2000 at 08:14:11, Peter Davison wrote: >On October 06, 2000 at 08:09:08, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 06, 2000 at 07:58:57, Peter Davison wrote: >> >>>On October 06, 2000 at 00:17:08, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >>> >>>>> Just don't post here anymore, if you want to leave. >>>> >>>>The two ways are only superficially similar. There should be a button equivalent >>>>to "unsubscribe" where you're off any list, any count, any emailing, any future >>>>CCC statistics or contacts. Moderation decisions have to have measurable >>>>consequences. If a set of moderators and their decisions results in instant >>>>halving the membership count, that stimulates changes toward improvements, in >>>>individual moderators and in the whole system. Merely withdrawing ones >>>>contributions doesn't have nearly as positive effect. >>> >>>There is no way at all to get your password and username removed. If you ask >>>them, they won't do it. I have a good deal of evidence for this. >> >>Why do you need to get your passward and user name removed? >>You can simply stop to post and the practical result is the same. > >Some persons might be concerned that if they left the group, stopped posting and >reading that leaving their password / username combination active into the >indefinite future was a risk they didn't want to take. If only because it might >be discovered in time and then abused. If you quit this forum, would you like >the name Blass Uri to be taken over by any lunatic who managed to hack or obtain >your password by whatever method? I suspect you would prefer to be able to ask >for it to be deleted, or even have the opportunity to just delete it yourself. > >> >>Uri 1. If Uri asked to have his account deleted, and this was done, then anybody could come along and sign up as Uri. He'd be better off leaving the account around. 2. Unused accounts eventually get removed from the database -- there's not much point in having accounts that haven't been used in three years lying around. Dave
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