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Posted by Tomatheus on June 20, 2006, at 0:43:23
This is in response to gardenergirl's post in the thread titled "Taking Nardil to the EXTREME [lots of exclamation points]" on the meds board.
Like Vader40, I am also guilty of having posted Ace's e-mail address in a message that I wrote to him. I did this because Ace had previously (publicly) posted his e-mail address in a message that I was able to find in the Psycho-Babble archives. I had e-mailed him and did not receive a reply from him, so I sent him a message on Psycho-Babble asking if he was still using the address.
It was my assumption that because Ace had given out his e-mail address in a previous Babble post (which, as all of us know, is in the public domain) that another mention of his e-mail address would not have qualified as giving out his personal information without his permission. I personally have given out one of my e-mail addresses in several posts that I have made, and it's always been my understanding that once I made that address available on Babble that it was no longer "personal" but public (because, once again, everything on Babble is assumed to be in the public domain).
I understand that it be a violation of one's privacy to give out truly "personal" information about a Psycho-Babble user, but it's always been my assumption that a user would not publicly post his/her e-mail address in a Psycho-Babble message if he/she did not want that e-mail address to be publicly known. So, I guess what I'm asking for is a clarification on this matter: is a Psycho-Babble user's e-mail address considered to be "personal information" if the user already made the address public in an older Psycho-Babble message?
Tomatheus
Posted by gardenergirl on June 20, 2006, at 0:57:46
In reply to Posting 'personal information' from previous posts, posted by Tomatheus on June 20, 2006, at 0:43:23
I hadn't realized that Ace had posted that email address before. My post to Vader40 may not be appropriate, if Dr. Bob agrees with your interpretation. Thanks for pointing this out.
gg
Posted by Tomatheus on June 20, 2006, at 1:10:36
In reply to Re: Posting 'personal information' from previous posts » Tomatheus, posted by gardenergirl on June 20, 2006, at 0:57:46
> I hadn't realized that Ace had posted that email address before. My post to Vader40 may not be appropriate, if Dr. Bob agrees with your interpretation. Thanks for pointing this out.
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> ggYou're welcome. If you need me to confirm which post I found his address on, please let me know.
Thanks,
Tomatheus
Posted by Dr. Bob on June 21, 2006, at 1:16:19
In reply to Posting 'personal information' from previous posts, posted by Tomatheus on June 20, 2006, at 0:43:23
> is a Psycho-Babble user's e-mail address considered to be "personal information" if the user already made the address public in an older Psycho-Babble message?
That's a good question. What about posting a link to the older message rather than the email address itself?
Bob
Posted by Tomatheus on June 24, 2006, at 20:55:49
In reply to Re: 'personal information' from previous posts, posted by Dr. Bob on June 21, 2006, at 1:16:19
> > is a Psycho-Babble user's e-mail address considered to be "personal information" if the user already made the address public in an older Psycho-Babble message?
>
> That's a good question. What about posting a link to the older message rather than the email address itself?
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> BobIt sounds like a good idea to me. I'll do that from now on if I feel that I need to re-mention an e-mail address that had already been made public on Babble.
Tomatheus
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