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From: "Frank G.Soural" <>
Subject: Re: Question for Discussion
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 22:22:40 -0400


Hello Y'all. On the topic of privacy, I am not concerned.
If a crook wants to find out where I live all he needs to
do is to turn on the Yahoo search engine to look up my
e-mail address and phone number and the street address is right there
When you sign up on the web you have opened up the proverbial
barn door. The horse is long gone. Now if you gave away your
charge card number that would be a horse of a different colour.

Discussion anyone ?? Frank.

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On 10/03/97, at 09:53 PM, M. Spencer wrote:

>Tracey Converse wrote:
>>
>> Just wondering....do you guys worry about your privacy on the internet? For
>> example, I just did a search for my grandfather and pulled up about 10
>> sites with not only his name and information but mine too!(Including my
>> full name, birth/marriage date and location, and my mother's maiden name.)
>> Only my death date wasn't including! :) So, what do you think about the
>> posting of a living persons information? And, if you disagree with the
>> practice, how would you politely ask for your information to be removed?
>>
>> Let's discuss this on the list because I think a lot of us are very
>> interested in the topic!
>>
>> :)
>> Tracey
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>
>I am always very optimistic that there is a very small minority of
>people out there who are out to do us harm. I have put the present day
>information out with the long dead. Hope that no harm comes to me or
>any of the people I love because of it.
>
>Martha Spencer
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