Re: [Cz-L] New facebook group about the Jewish cemetery

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:49:50 -0500
To: jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Reply-To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Bruce and Jerome are right about the List and Ehpes mail.
When I voiced concern about the use of face-book, I was not worried
about Email from and to face-book being hacked into. I worry about
face-book selling my Email address to assorted advertisers.

Christian suggested that: "As soon as not beeing a member of a certain
social network means social exclusion, the network should be taken over
into public ownership."

Quite right, but in the meantime, can anyone suggest another alternative
to "Big brother Facebook"?

Mimi

On Dec 23, 2012, at 6:39 PM, jerome schatten wrote:

> Czernowitzers...
>
> I second Bruce's observations... Never was our list hacked into, and I
> would suggest that is in no small measure due to not using
> HTML/Rich-Text as a means of transporting the list's posts; the great
> job Cornell is doing to trap out malicious stuff before it gets
> distributed, and the final check by the moderator(s).
>
> I'm a bit less sanguine about the use of Social Media sites than my
> boss, but if you're careful and know what you're doing (and that
> includes reading and understanding their privacy policies), you should
> be just fine.
>
> Best,
> jerome
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 20:28 +0000, Bruce Reisch wrote:
>> Hackers have gained access to email accounts of individual list
>> members.
>> Then they sent scam emails to those listed in the individual's
>> address
>> book. This often included many fellow list members. But hackers
>> did NOT
>> access the Ehpes mailing list at any time, and when they sent scam
>> emails
>> to the list address, such emails were rejected and never
>> distributed via
>> the list. Our safeguards have worked very well.
>>
>> One always has to be wary of scams on the internet. But none of this
>> should deter anyone from joining Christian's new Facebook group if
>> they
>> wish.
>>
>> Bruce
>>

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