TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: moderator
to: George Pope
from: Todd Sullivan
date: 2003-11-11 17:37:00
subject: FIDO echo privacy

"Yousa no worry.  Meesa fix," Jar-Jar said to Jedi Knights George Pope
and all, who looked at each other in resignation.

 GP> Were you aware that your echo's contents were being put on the internet
 GP> for all & sundry to see without necessarily being a part of
 GP> Fido/BBSing?

 GP> And what do you think of this?

 GP> One user has complained, suggesting that it feels like an invasion of
 GP> privacy to her, to have "non family intruding on our
conversations". .
 GP> .

 GP> Thoughts?

I'd have to agree.  I some echos, we are able to "be ourselves" (sort of)
and/or be someone else.

It smacks of the so-called "BBS ranking", where someone confides in
another, and their secret is broadcast everywhere the slimeball can, just
to feel "superior."

High school was 24 years ago for me; I have no desire to relive that
idiocy.

Todd Sullivan

... "My mind has staged a revolution." - Jeff Hancock

--- Spot 1.3b Unregistered
* Origin: MODERATOR - AMIGA (1:3613/1275.12)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 3613/1275 123/500 106/2000 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.