On 1 Dec 2009, at 11:20, Ant Miller wrote: > It's impossible to set t the outset what the distribution of a wave > should be (you have to assume that they WILL be public- dangerous > unless you live in a world without lawyers or Daily Mail journos!) > It's impossible to actively manage what waves YOU get attached to. > > In essence it treats the world as a great big friendly share > everything playschool, where nobody even has surprise parties let > alone personal private conversations.
Surely email has the same issue? Nothing stops me from bccing or forwarding emails from supposedly private conversations to third parties there. I'm not saying that a better way to manage participants wouldn't be welcome, but surely the existing one is no worse than those of older technologies? S - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
