Re: [APML] egroups -OT

[Bert Katzung <katzung@pacbell.net>]

Hi Michael:
I was interested in your post about egroups. I looked at the site a few
weeks ago (I think Julie from the takahashi list referenced it). However,
they seem very inquisitive about one's personal data. I may be over
sensitized by the current comments about privacy invasion on the internet
and unbelievable number of cookies that accumulate in the temp internet
directory, but I decided maybe egroups wasn't as altruistic as it seemed. Do
you have any insight as to what they are getting out of this and what they
do with the personal information they collect?
Thanks,
Bert

Bert Katzung
San Rafael, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Koppelman" <lolife@bitstream.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 June, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: [APML] egroups


> It occurred to me that some of you may not be familiar with egroups.
> This list is mirrored on there at
> http://www.egroups.com/group/astro-photo. There are two cool things
> about this. One is, you can sign up for digested versions of this
> list, or you can just read and post messages right from the Web. This
> is a high-volume list and for some it might be easier to read from
> the web. The other cool thing is that you can do stuff like polls,
> databases, links, and stuff like that.
>
> If you do sign up at egroups, you'll want to make sure that you don't
> create a situation where you get all the messages emailed to you
> twice!
>
> I created a poll on there just for the fun of it concerning which
> mounts people use. So far not a single person has participated except
> me. :)
>
> Just an FYI.
>
> Michael
>
>
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