kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (04/23/91)
I received a request from one of the subscribers over the weekend for the ARABIDOPSIS mailing list, and Chris Somerville just informed me this morning that he routinely posted this about every six months. Our usual policy on BIOSCI has been not to distribute mailing lists unless getting permission first. Accordingly I would like to know if anyone does NOT want their e-mail address released. I shall proceed under the assumption that silence implies consent. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net
BROE@AARDVARK.UCS.UOKNOR.EDU (Bruce Roe) (04/23/91)
Dave Kristofferson Posted the following: => I received a request from one of the subscribers over the weekend for => the ARABIDOPSIS mailing list, and Chris Somerville just informed me => this morning that he routinely posted this about every six months. => Our usual policy on BIOSCI has been not to distribute mailing lists => unless getting permission first. Accordingly I would like to know if => anyone does NOT want their e-mail address released. I shall proceed => under the assumption that silence implies consent. => Dave, I don't understand why someone would want an e-mail list of subscribers. That's why we have the BB'd. If someone wants to post a message to the subscribers then just post it to the bbd. Also, any list of subscribers may not be valid for very long if new folks subscribe and others un-subscribe. We get enough junk e-mail so do we really need private, junk e-mail. All that said, I could care less if my e-mail address is given out. It's really easy to delete unwanted messages. --bruce
kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (04/23/91)
> We get enough junk e-mail so do we really need private, junk e-mail. > > All that said, I could care less if my e-mail address is given out. > It's really easy to delete unwanted messages. Bruce, The request was from a subscriber who simply wanted to be able to contact other researchers privately; no one is trying to get the list to sell you something. Nonetheless I routinely hesitate to give out people's addresses without alerting them first. I should add, however, that now that the newsgroup is distributed at four separate sites by e-mail and also over USENET, it is not a trivial task to keep track of everyone who reads it. I am not sure whether this kind of list distribution will be done on a regular basis. Dave