[spectre] spectres partially uncovered?

[Sally Jane NORMAN]

Dear Honor, dear Spectre

I'm perplexed that we have to go to such measures to preserve anonymity,
when what we're trying to uphold/ relaunch (or at least as I see it) is a
quality of dialogue. What reasons do people have for not wishing to publish
their identities? There were some very good ones a couple of years ago, but
where are the risks today? Are they the same reasons that 200+ people do not
openly participate in exchange? If so, either there's something we can learn
from or else what the hell are they/ we doing here? Are we becoming spectres
twofold through sheer paranoia? Can we even hope to build up communication
with people unwilling to say who they are? What about us idiots who
repeatedly risk our electronic lives by sending emails with our full
addresses on them? Sorry to sound cynical but I personally find this whole
situation distressingly obscurantist. Need some sunlight. Bad timing for the
northern hemisphere.

shady lady

sjn





-----Message d'origine-----
De : spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de
[mailto:spectre-admin@mikrolisten.de]De la part de honor
Envoye : lundi 19 novembre 2001 13:27
A : spectre@mikrolisten.de
Objet : [spectre] spectres partially uncovered?


hi everybody,

in the last little while there's been some discussion about how it would be
nice if we had some sense of who else is subscribed to the spectre
list.  when the list started it was a mere 30 - 40 of us, and now we've
blossomed to a group of about 250 or so.

many are interested in who they're addressing on the list. we've talked
about sending a note to the list with the partial addresses of all the
subscribers.  this will give interested spectres an idea of who roughly is
on the list, and a vague (and quite possibly inaccurate) notion of domain
demographics.

this is the format we're thinking of posting the addresses in:

abroeck@.....de
inke@.....de
honor@.....au

ie. - the portion of the address following the @ symbol and before the
country domain is blocked out.

does anybody have any strong objections to having their address posted to
the rest of the list in this way?
if so, please send me <honor@va.com.au> an email by midday on wednesday,
and let me know the address you subscribed to the spectre list with.  i'll
remove your address from the list of addresses that i'll send to everyone
else.

bestest

honor

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