Hi KAREN (of 2:252/171),
On , in a message to
KENWARDC{at}TGIS.CO.UK you wrote:

 KW>...This is the first time a fido echo that I take
 KW> part in has been displayed. Apparently, I'm the only one here 
 KW> concerned with
 KW> this practice.  We don't get to use alias's here, so I guess I'm
 KW> going to sit in the background. 

How would much of this make any difference in the long run?  Fidonet is not
a private club.  Although a user would typically require entering a name
and a password to access a BBS and thus access Fidonet, there is nothing
from stopping anyone to "look around" and scrutinize Fidonet
messages and names.

Personally, I don't like what the site you mentioned has done.  Although
the sysop at www2.vadvphp.com is a legit Fidonet sysop, I don't think he
should have made the contents of echomail available in a public manner
(even if he just seems to be doing it to demonstrate the new
Fidonet/Internet 
software that allows the two worlds to merge.)  He should have atleast had
a username/password frontend registration process before anyone could
"access" Fidonet.  Perhaps that would even prevent the
web-crawler software that search engines use from accessing the message
bases.  But maybe that would not even be a guarantee.

At the very least, send that sysop a message telling him about your
concern.  I feel like doing the same. 

Please don't religate to hiding in the background.  

...August

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