From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Livejournal
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:22:59 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:02 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Livejournal

>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:15:41 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch"
> <kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:
> > I am hurt and offended at the reaction to my message.  In more than
> > a week, NOT ONE person so much as hinted that telling WSFAns of
> > each
> > other's livejournals might not be appropriate.  NOT ONE suggested
> > that a week might be too short, and that I should give more time or
> > ask again.
> >
>
> It is unfortunate that the Livejournal 'tempest in a teapot' seems to
> have engendered a round of bad feeling.  To keep things in perspective,
> Keith made what he thought was an adequate effort to respect members'
> privacy and wishes, and he thought that posting the portion of
> information for which he got no objection might be of some benefit, and
> would be at worst harmless.  Almost everyone else seems to have
> considered the matter of little import, and of those who objected after
> the fact, only one or two appear to be seriously miffed.
>
> I think that the root of this controversy lies in there being more than
> one way to define privacy.  Or, to put it another way, an action which
> might be considered a breach of privacy in the view of one person might
> not be such in the view of another.  Keith undoubtedly wants to respect
> the privacy of the members of this list, and apparently Keith is inclined
> to presume that anything a list member has posted elsewhere as a publicly
> accessible blog is not something they wish to keep private from the
> members of this list, and he took the further precaution of posting the
> list of those members whose LJ IDs he was proposing to post, and waited a
> week before following through on that.

LiveJournal is far from the same thing as a blog.   Most authors of blogs
are looking for a widespread readership -- as many hits as possible.   Few
LiveJournal authors could or would say that.

Keith's sole problem is that he checks things out on the web and makes
interesting cross-connections.   For this he has been excoriated, the last
time by someone who objected to his reading something about her on Rich
Lynch's website!   (Rich has dropped the "offending" material from his
actively-maintained website, but an earlier, 'ghost' version remains up and
accessable and unchanged.)

There's all sorts of stuff out there on the www.   People who object to
their webwritings becoming known to their friends and associates are living
in Nevernever Land.

I say, live it or live with it.

--Ted White