privacy

[Karl Anderson]

"Joseph S. Barrera III" <joe@barrera.org> writes:

> Also sprach Eirikur Hallgrimsson:
> > Rudy wrote:
> > > Side note, is there a way that we can limit posting to members only?  This 
> > > is the worst case example of why it's necessary IMHO.
> > 
> > My vote is to do this.
> 
> But (I hope I am only stating the obvious) anyone can join,
> post something, and leave. So the limit is meaningless.

Well, no, there's a small effort barrier, which in practice would keep
out a large number of kooks & spammers.

But I'm against that, because it would also keep out a large number of
people who would otherwise pop in for a thread.  There have been good
examples of drawing interested parties into a discussion on FoRK just
by CCing them.  This just doesn't happen if someone needs to register
& then unregister.

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/