From: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org (bklist-digest) To: bklist-digest@smoe.org Subject: bklist-digest V1 #19 Reply-To: bklist@smoe.org Sender: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "bklist-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. bklist-digest Friday, February 28 1997 Volume 01 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- BRENDA KAHN MENTIONED IN "WIRED" [Gordon Wong ] Re: brenda / gordon in Wired [DelphiBlue@aol.com] Re: Re: brenda / gordon in Wired [Mark_Schaefer@csgi.com (Mark Schaefer)] Re: brenda / gordon in Wired [rlamon@interlog.com (gill lamon)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 16:23:43 -0800 From: Gordon Wong Subject: BRENDA KAHN MENTIONED IN "WIRED" I was reading "Wired" magazine (p. 100, March 97) and I was shocked that they mentioned my Brenda Kahn Home Page. I was doubly-shocked that they actually knew who Brenda Kahn was. The articles was actually about Geocities, the location of my page: At SunsetStrip, oddly, there's a megapage about the terrific and culty New York antifolk singer Brenda Kahn (www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6480/), with a Brenda crossword puzzle for her few thousand motley but rabid fans. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 21:21:30 -0500 From: Chuck Mongiovi Subject: re: brenda / gordon in Wired i think it's cool that brenda's getting the press, but i can't help but think that there's a privacy issue here that's not being dealt with .. when i saw gordon's page address on the BK flyers, i assumed that they'd emailed off of the list to work out that brenda wanted to have it there, but i'm wondering whether or not pulling the address off a search engine and then printing it is okay without permission .. the only analogy i can come up with is finding someone's name and address in the phone book and then printing that .. any comments or more to the point does anyone know if there are any privacy related laws? - -chuck ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 23:38:06 -0500 (EST) From: DelphiBlue@aol.com Subject: Re: brenda / gordon in Wired >>but i'm wondering whether or not pulling the address off a search engine and then printing it is okay without permission<< The idea of having a website is to advertize your ideas, beliefs, and often products to as many people as you possibly can. No one who has a website wants to limit the number of people who can view their site. Free publicity is a wonderful thing. Especially for Brenda in this case. I discovered Brenda through a link to Gordon's page, from a Jeff Buckley page. See how this stuff is beneficial? Dennis ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 1997 22:55:30 GMT From: Mark_Schaefer@csgi.com (Mark Schaefer) Subject: Re: Re: brenda / gordon in Wired On 2/28/97 at 2:21 AM, chuckie@webspan.net wrote: - ->> any comments or more to the point does anyone know if there are any - ->> privacy related laws? The very fact that a web page is completely accessible to the public without restriction, has the practical and legal effect of cancelling any "reasonable expectation of privacy" regarding the information contained thereon. Laws regarding internet privacy are related to the right to privacy in communications over the internet and not to information freely and openly posted on the web, or to the addresses of those pages. - -MaS "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - A. Lincoln - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sent via digitalNATION Online Services http://www.dn.net Provider of Internet Access & Highspeed Web Server Services Specializing in WWW Solutions for Commerce & Enterprise ph:(703) 642-2800 fax: (703) 642-0516 email:info@dn.net - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:21:04 -0500 From: rlamon@interlog.com (gill lamon) Subject: Re: brenda / gordon in Wired > >->> any comments or more to the point does anyone know if there are any >->> privacy related laws? > >The very fact that a web page is completely accessible to the public without >restriction, has the practical and legal effect of cancelling any "reasonable >expectation of privacy" regarding the information contained thereon. if you create a homepage, aren't you effectively 'publishing' that page? and if someone else establishes a link from their page to yours, they're publishing a link to your page, which is basically the same thing as citing the page in a magazine article - isn't it? i mean, by having a link on my page to someone else's without their consent, am *i* somehow invading their privacy? anyway, i'd be thrilled if a magazine - or anyone for that matter - made reference to *my* page Gill <=== like Jack and Jill, but without a Jack, and spelt with a G e-mail: rlamon@interlog.com cx999@freenet.carleton.ca new, improved, lemony fresh url: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2169 **************************************************************** some people wear their smile like a disguise those people who smile a lot watch the eyes i know it 'cuz i'm like that a lot you think everything's okay and it is 'till it's not ----- ani difranco **************************************************************** ------------------------------ End of bklist-digest V1 #19 ***************************