Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:20:05 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
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>

dicconf wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah, so  that explains the cryptic IM I got earlier today.

Fortunately, I think of everything online as a postcard  rather than a
letter. --Eva