X-Message-Number: 7232
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:50:22 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <>
Subject: Should I shut down my complete web-accessable cryonet archives?

Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:48:15 -0500
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl>
To: . . .
Subject: Re: your name

Happy Thanksgiving.

I apologize for not responding to your earlier request that I censor
your name out of my complete Cryonet web archives.

The purpose of my archives is to accurately archive exactly what was
sent to "a private email list" -- which is, of course, not really
private at all.  It has always been open to everyone with e-mail.
Which includes far more people than have access to the web.

If the emerging consensus is that there is a greater expectation of
privacy on open lists than on "a public newsgroup or website", than I
shall reluctantly shut down my archives, and ask Kevin Brown to do the
same with his equally complete e-mail-accessable archives.

I'm also inclined toward taking them down since they occupy nearly 40
megabytes for which not only has nobody ever even offered to share the
expense, but for which I have recently gotten more complaints than
compliments.

Yes, I did very reluctantly agree to replace a vowell with a * in one
person's name.  He is perhaps the most important person in cryonics
research, but he could lose not only his job, but any other possible
future job in cryobiology if a routine web search were to ever turn up
his name in connection with cryonics.  Nevertheless, I'm now wondering
if this was a mistake and a bad precedent on my part.

I'll be sending a copy of this to Cryonet, and asking for opinions on
the future of my archives.
--
Keith Lynch, 
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/


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