Horace Heffner wrote:
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> On Jul 17, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Paul Lowrance wrote:
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>> Exactly. Post his profile url, silly. People have no business posting
>> his email & phone # until you get his permission, period. That's
>> common Internet educate. If Dr. Mike wants to remove his email from
>> the Internet then he merely needs to delete it from his profile. How's
>> he going to remove it from hundreds of web pages? Furthermore there's
>> the topic of online spiders that collect email address for spamming
>> purposes.
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>
> There are crawlers and acrchivers of web pages also. You put something
> on a web page and you can expect it to be around indefinitely. Ever
> hear of the Wayback Machine?
You betcha I have!
Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jul 17, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Paul Lowrance wrote:
... and I'll add that a persons email and phone # should *not* be
published on the Internet without his or her permission. I'm still a
little appalled that someone at Vo publishing Dr. Mike's email & phone #.
It was published on his web site. It is therefor public information.
Whoosh! Right over your head Horace. ;-) It's called educate. Educate is not a
requirement. People don't have to be nice, just as people can grab anyone's
email address and post it at all over the Internet. My email address is publish -->
http://energymover.googlepages.com/
Yet it's in javascript to prevent spiders, but I certainly do *not* want people
blasting my email address all over the Internet. If one must pass it on, then
*please* do it privately or by some other appropriate manner.