X-Message-Number: 7232 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:50:22 -0500 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <> Subject: Should I shut down my complete web-accessable cryonet archives? Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 14:48:15 -0500 From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl> To: . . . Subject: Re: your name Happy Thanksgiving. I apologize for not responding to your earlier request that I censor your name out of my complete Cryonet web archives. The purpose of my archives is to accurately archive exactly what was sent to "a private email list" -- which is, of course, not really private at all. It has always been open to everyone with e-mail. Which includes far more people than have access to the web. If the emerging consensus is that there is a greater expectation of privacy on open lists than on "a public newsgroup or website", than I shall reluctantly shut down my archives, and ask Kevin Brown to do the same with his equally complete e-mail-accessable archives. I'm also inclined toward taking them down since they occupy nearly 40 megabytes for which not only has nobody ever even offered to share the expense, but for which I have recently gotten more complaints than compliments. Yes, I did very reluctantly agree to replace a vowell with a * in one person's name. He is perhaps the most important person in cryonics research, but he could lose not only his job, but any other possible future job in cryobiology if a routine web search were to ever turn up his name in connection with cryonics. Nevertheless, I'm now wondering if this was a mistake and a bad precedent on my part. I'll be sending a copy of this to Cryonet, and asking for opinions on the future of my archives. -- Keith Lynch, http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7232