Malcolm Miles wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday May 25 2004 at 23:36:

 MM> If the ZCC echo is made public, presumably none of us will post any
 MM> further messages of a personal nature.

Based on the archive of message I read, there has been nothing like that
written in ZCC for quite a while.

 MM> This will make it all that harder for each of us to get to know each
 MM> other. Understanding people on a closer level makes it easier to work
 MM> with them, especially when there are language and cultural barriers.

This is just another attempt to justify something that not many people
think justifiable or even practicable, Miles. Nobody in their right mind is
going to reveal sensitive personal information in a fido echo, be it ZCC or
anything else. And what's left is the give and take in the ZCC, which helps
others understand what's going on - and why.

You (plural now) do yourselves no favors by trying the keep something like
this secret, and engender a lot of unhealthy speculation about "power
politics". As I wrote elsewhere, the speculations are a good deal
worse than the reality.

The only possible justification I've seen was that of Janis, who was
worried that private telephone numbers and email addresses could become
public and presumably lead to a flood of calls and messages. But anyone
with a head on their shoulders - and certainly I class the ZCs in that
group - doesn't mention such things in a fido echo anyway, since everyone
knows even the "closed" ones aren't really closed... there is
always some way to get around that, and we must always assume anything we
write will become public sooner or later.

Renato is right on this call.

Cheers, Bob

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