Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-13 Thread The Korrows
Allan, My view is very simple. I am a lurker as would be described in previous post, though that is due to the fact that I am not pre-disposed to writing, it is not the way in which I tend to work. Intimidation only works and will continue to work until we are no longer intimidated. The effects

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-10 Thread James Hedley
Subject: Re: Personal Security vs National Security Interesting thread, and the evolution of BDNow! continues. The archives are a tremendously valuable asset, and it would be a shame if they were not made available to those who truly have an interest in BD. The fact that anyone

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-10 Thread Aurora Farm
-Original Message- From: Lloyd Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:01 AM Subject: Re: Personal Security vs National Security - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-10 Thread Allan Balliett
www.rain.org/~jjgelles/economic-rights.htm This url is not coming up for me, Barbara. -Allan

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Hi Allan Have you noticed how the lurkers seem to be against your idea and most of the active posters in favour ? ('cept Frank of course) Lloyd Charles Sorry, Lloyd, Frank is definitely in the lurker column. -Allan

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Folks - I undoubtedly have added to the confusion by my choice of a subject, so I wanted to make a couple of comment before sitting back and letting this conversation run its course. This is not a freedom of speech issue. This is working consciously towards a 'freedom from Johnsons.' If I

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Hugh Lovel
Given that domestic espionage is in the vogue, Given that everywhere I go I run into avid readers of BD Now! who never post to BD Now! because they do not want a permanent GOOGLE searchable record of their spiritual and agricultural insights Given that yours truly was recently refused entrance

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread mroboz
Please tell us more about the circumstances where it took place! Michael At 09:57 PM 01/08/03 -0500, you wrote: Given that yours truly was recently refused entrance into a public building because a web search revealed that my 'world view does not coincide with ours.'

RE: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Nancy Geffken
I'm not sure of the difference between member oriented and public archive. Would this require registration/password or a membership fee? How do we protect ourselves from all this anyways, unless you're going to totally subvert your personality i.e. never say what you think, don't buy any books

RE: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread zoran
I think it will be too naïve to think that something on internet could be private. By making it private - for members eyes only, You do not solve the real problem and that is that someone has right to prevent Your free access to public property. Regards Zoran

RE: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Allan Balliett
A case in point: You apply for a job with fairly conventional non-profit that does good work but doesn't think outside of the box. They are very impressed with your accomplishments, so, since they are office workers and have nothing else to do, they pound your name into google to see if they

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Allan Balliett
Apart from public exposure, what difference would it make? Any costs involved? What changes in mode, etc? And is it feasible, or would it involve too much work organising the change?I guess not, or you wouldn't be suggesting it. Helen I'm very not comfortable with YahooGroups, for

RE: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Allan Balliett
Dear Zoran - I'm not trying to solve the larger issues, just trying to create privacy from unintentional eavesdropping so that members of the list feel more comfortable sharing. The archives, incidentally, did not appear accidentally. They were requested back in the early days, back when some

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Allan Balliett
Please tell us more about the circumstances where it took place! Michael Michael! Please, can I have some sensitivity? Thanks Allan

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
From: Allan Balliett I'm very not comfortable with YahooGroups, for reasons mentioned and others. I detest Yahool!! BDnow is THE BEST What I would like to do is keep the archives here and physically dispense them on a quarterly basis. The archives would not be available to lurkers, only to

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Allan Balliett
I'd like to see these recorded there is a lot of good stuff on those early archives!! All dangerously outdated, Lloyd. Ok, I'm kidding. The plan is to incorporate all the archives on the first CD. This will work best if someone in OZ volunteers to work from disk images and will burn and

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread David J. Heaf
If it's any help, the issue of open archives was discussed years ago on anthropos-science list run by Stuart Brown at Reading UK and the wish of members was overwhelmingly in favour of member-only archive access. Otherwise it inhibits 'conversation' and helps the spammers. Apart from that, the

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Barft
amen brand new "member" jeff barney

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Barft
oops! the amen was to david's post from wales. I didn't realize as newbie that his post wouldn't ride along with my reply. jeff barney

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: Re: Personal Security vs National Security (Allan wrote:) MANY people I talk to at conferences have told me that they do not want to associate their names with their ideas in such a public place. This is very sad. Curtis would like you to tell your story to GlobalNews. Or some version

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread klebeau
Allan may have really really needed that job--and jobs are scarce these days. If we all owned our own farms and were independently wealthy, this would be less of an issue. I also wonder about those on the listserve who are in other countries with less freedom than we have in the U.S. and whether

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Aurora Farm
Message- From: Merla Barberie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:48 AM Subject: Re: Personal Security vs National Security Yes, please record the early archives and made them available if you expunge them. The whole climate in our beloved

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Diver
I don't have time to read through all the posts, but I got far enough to voice my opinion. Allan, sorry but I don't think much of your idea to move BD-Now to a private space and to expunge the earlier archives. I don't think much of YahooGroups, either. Yet, I will certainly join the private

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread sherwood
Interesting thread, and the evolution of BDNow! continues. The archives are a tremendously valuable asset, and it would be a shame if they were not made available to those who truly have an interest in BD. The fact that anyone, with the stroke of a key can access them, can lead, as Allan has

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread David J. Heaf
David - What is your real name? -Allan David Heaf. My somewhat anonymous e-address 101622 dot 2773 at compuserve dot com was issued in 1995 when Compuserve did not allow names in e-addresses. David Heaf, Wales, UK

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Barft
Thanks Gil! wading isn't an option at this depth! My wife and I have a small home garden here in Durham North Carolina and are looking to take the full scale plunge. We've sprayed the nine preps for two years and the Three Kings this year. There are two more in this area Jon with 161 acres and

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Jeff, Do not take those comments personally. I think they are directed at a few individuals, known to some on the list, but not the bulk of us. I think it is aimed at a few who are doing the "my God is a better God than yours" or "my god is the only God, therefore yours must be the devil"

Re: Personal Security vs National Security - Web spider

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Thank you Zoran, I am upgrading at the moment and the new box has ten gigs so will have room, if I am quick! Gil zoran wrote:

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Barft
I know from fundamentalists in every organization. My bone of contention is: if one trashes a whole group without specific example, especially in light of the broad discussion under this subject line, then a tacit understaning is implied. Forming by default an opposing fundamentalist mimey culty

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:12 AM Subject: Re: Personal Security vs National Security Hi Allan Have you noticed how the lurkers seem to be against your idea and most of the active

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Roger Pye
Allan Balliett wrote: It seems to me that it would be best to move into a more 'member oriented' archive instead of a public archive. The major purpose of this list is to speak openly and to share our experiences in some fairly unusual realms. I think everyone is feeling this shyness. I

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Also answers to King? Gil Allan Balliett wrote: David - What is your real name? -Allan

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Allan, If you are to move to have the earlier archives expunged, I for one would like to buy how ever many CDs are involved to obtain a full set of back posts, as I have only been on for a while and only now found out how to access them. I would really like to be able to look though them at

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-08 Thread Garuda
Yes I agree Certainly one of my reasons for 'quiter' participation Glen A - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 3:57 PM Subject: Personal Security vs National Security Given that domestic espionage is in the

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-08 Thread Essie Hull
Allan - What was that about?? Essie At 09:57 PM 01/08/03 -0500, you wrote: Given that yours truly was recently refused entrance into a public building because a web search revealed that my 'world view does not coincide with ours.'