Re: Confidentiality of member files - copyright

[Mikael Hansen]

At 03:02 -0500 2/28/2001, murr rhame wrote:

>You can keep the subscriber list on an announcement or anonymous
>posting list fairly safe if you run the list on a machine that
>you own.

Indeed. But if what a small company decides to move its subscribers 
to, say, a Yahoo-based list without asking the subscribers first? 
They may not feel comfortable with such a move given less local 
control, and isn't there then more reason to worry about leakage?

At 00:21 -0800 2/28/2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

>But admins who are worried about leakage should do what companies have done
>for years: salt your data. You can subscribe AOL, or hotmail, or yahoo, or
>(name your favorite free email) names that are ONLY used for the specific
>purpose of trapping leakage. The problem, of course, is that those addresses
>can (and do) leak in other ways