Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!kudla From: kudla@rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Information Control Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 19:43:49 GMT References: <17246@venera.isi.edu> <106376@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <17289@venera.isi.edu> Organization: just say no! Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: woolf@isi.edu's message of 23 Mar 91 23:20:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: nuge105.its.rpi.edu In article <17289@venera.isi.edu> woolf@isi.edu (Suzanne Woolf) writes: about my opinions and beliefs. What he doesn't have is my permission to give/sell the information he has to that hypothetical activists' magazine for their mailing list (or whatever). I don't care if it would be of interest to them, it ought to be up to me to decide whether they get it, not them and not some third party who once saw my name on a usenet post. So if the circulation editor of such a magazine read this newsgroup and added your name to his mailing list, do you feel he would be breaking the law? (I've gotten on two real world mailing lists, both of which I quite enjoy, through just such a thing happening....) I must admit that I find all of this restriction-of-personal-info stuff silly at best and frightening at worst. One of my former roommates bagged my landlord for multiple hundred bucks and we've been reduced to "covert operations" or whatever you want to call snooping around people who know him hoping to catch a scrap of info, all because it's too easy in this world to hide oneself. I greatly favor a society where people can "slip through the cracks" and carry on with their lives without fear of someone watching everything they do, and I would really love to see a society without a standard means of identifying anyone at will (i.e., eliminate social security numbers which were never meant for that purpose anyway). But I've also seen people abuse their "right to self-concealment" or whatever to the point where I'm extremely suspicious of *anyone* who wants to hold back that kind of info. Robert Jude Kudla No more bars! No more cages! Just rollerskating, disco music, and the occasional light show....