At 4:21 PM 12/11/95, jjflash wrote:
>I recently implemented a policy of
>manually subbing new members, requiring some basic information including
>name, phone number, etc. Some of the members (either brand new ones or
>those who are changing ISP's) object to my requiring this information as an
>invasion of their privacy.
It's the old privacy-vs-openness debate. If these folks want a bit less
openness (in this case, openness to attack from sub/unsub folks), they need
to give up a bit of privacy to you, the content creator of the list.
Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@graphics.cornell.edu> wrote:
>Why not? Any provider who allows its users to run unchecked pissing in
>other peoples' swimming pools deserves to be blacklisted from those
>pools.
I wholeheartedly disagree. If all Internet access cost the same, had the
same user interface, and the same support, then maybe. But AOL is the only
service available at a reasonable cost in some areas, and has a better
email interface than smaller competitors in some areas. This is not to say
"AOL is great": it isn't. But it is the best for millions of users who
might want to be on jjflash's mailing list.
--Paul Hoffman
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