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Re: So where is Brad's answer to the 2001 info?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:47:41 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm{AntiSpam}.org
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> - What is a "reasonable" amount of time? I would argue that for many things, a
> "reasonable" amount of time does not allow the above sequence to be followed
> given the speed at which information can propagate electronically.
However, it has an effect which the more draconian-seeming approach of going
over the head of the original poster doesn't -- it makes other people more
likely to voluntarily stop spreading the information.
If the original poster would have posted a message saying
"Oops; Lego tells me that the information I posted was supposed to be
confidential. I guess Target screwed up. I've deleted my message
containging the information. Please don't spread it anymore. Thanks."
then I would have been more instintively inclined to feel sympathetic. When
the posts are removed in a way that feels like censorship (whether it really
is or not), it makes people get a little thrill out of passing the info
around despite the edict: makes us feel like we're the Underground
Resistance stickin' it to the Man.
Interacting with people personally and respectfully goes a long way towards
countering this. Acting in a heavy-handed manner to crush the information
may actually make it spread faster.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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| (...) Absolutely -- I agree! -- and when I said before that I preferred clear legal requests to non-legal requests, I don't mean I prefer to heard heavy-handed manners :) but just to know that it's a legal request for removal. It can be perfectly (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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