X-Message-Number: 6287
From:  (Kevin Q Brown)
Date: 29 May 96 13:10:00 -0400
Subject: Re: nets & civility

Dr. Ettinger,
Thanks for your recent CryoNet message.  I think that the main point
that I can bring to this issue, in addition to what has already been
said, is that everything that gets posted to CryoNet is readily
available to the on-line world from now onward.  In addition to
the CryoNet web page (with the latest few hundred messages) at URL:
    http://www.cryonet.org/~kqb/cryonet.html
Keith Lynch maintains the complete archives at his web site:
    http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/les/cryonet/
Furthermore, USENET postings from many (most?) news groups, including
sci.cryonics, are readily available on the web, too.

The power of web search engines to extract information from all this
data has interesting consequences.  For example, future potential
employers or potential clients will be able to browse all postings
you have ever made in any forum that is mirrored on the web and,
based on what they find, decide whether or not you are someone they
want to work with.  Such data mining, combined with semi-automated
psychological/attitudinal analysis packages, could become a hot
profession in a few years. **  One might think that use of pseudonyms
could defeat such analysis, but it's very hard to disguise writing style,
so such subterfuge likely will become transparent.

As they say, the record speaks for itself.

    Kevin Q. Brown
    

  ** Employers often value teamwork and social skill even more than
     raw brainpower, which could be bad news for cryonicists! :-(


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