Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:40:24 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Not quite the death of Usenet, but still ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Eva Whitley wrote:
<snip>

> May not be a fair comparison. I don't know about the other social
> networking sites but on LJ one can set  blog posts to be seen by a
> screened group (friends list) and that would lock out Google, no? I wish
> there had been similar options on Usenet--I got so tired of being
> stalked by cretins who didn't like what I had to say and rather than
> debate the issue, decided to engage in RL harassment.

Alas.  Someone reportedly hacked "locked" blogs and posted a huge,
huge file of "private" photographs to prove he'd hacked the entire
system, not just one blog.

=Tamar