To each their own. The reality is that you use your first.last name@gmail email address to send to the group which can be obtained fairly easily. And the people who are really profiting off of linking up all that information already are doing so by using their servers and services.
-J On Feb 1, 2018, 12:57 PM -0800, EasyRider <[email protected]>, wrote: > Hi Norman, I'd just rather limit the ability of strangers to link information > gleaned from my random bloviations in a google group to other little bits and > scraps of information about me from elsewhere. > > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 2:42:00 PM UTC-5, Norman Bone wrote: > > ER- > > I'm honestly curious. An 'easy target' for what? I'm having a hard time > > imagining harm coming from what I post here. > > > > Thanks- > > -Norman 'Mostly a good apple' Bone in Portland, OR > > > > > > From: EasyRider <[email protected]> > > To: RBW Owners Bunch <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 11:17 AM > > Subject: [RBW] Re: Are you using your real name on here? > > > > I'd like to use my actual name but this isn't a 1990s listserv, it's a > > publicly searchable group. I'm not famous, or a public figure, or a > > teacher. I'd just rather not be an easy target for bad apples with basic > > keyword search abilities. That's why I "hide" behind a handle, not because > > I want to be an anonymous jerk to other RBW owners here. > > > > On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 8:34:38 PM UTC-5, Bob K. wrote: > > > My middle school students Google my name all the time—like, constantly. > > > They don’t need to be able to find anything else. Hence the last initial. > > > > > > > > > Bob K. in Baltimore > > -- > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/Q7q5E9YJSfY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
