Ah, sorry, I wanted to add a few thoughts and address your question more directly...
Another advantage to this email list is the size of the community - it is small enough to be effectively moderated. If you look at something like Amazon, which has a fantastic community with volumes of rich feedback from anonymous users, you might think it is perfect. However, you should be aware that many companies hire people to post false comments, and engage in ongoing false conversations. Yes, it is absolutely false advertising. There is an entire industry of companies that provide this 'service' to larger corporations as 'Image Management' or some such other nonsense. Sadly, this blatantly unethical behavior is very effective and thus wide spread. It is not only on Amazon. Luckily, there are legislative efforts underway to combat this. Although actually enforcing it is another matter. So be careful of what you read on customer reviews. Still a great source though. The wide open Internet is the same way. They try to discredit or discourage the use of CS, and as popularity increases, others pollute the Internet with false products and false claims, which will slowly lead people to have bad experiences with bogus products, and thus ultimately discredit CS as a whole. Or make it illegal. Or make it require a prescription. Or make it cost prohibitive. This doesn't happen within the email list because of our ability to maintain effective moderation. The archives are not much of a vulnerability because they are not interactive like a forum or other such medium. Sure, our information can be found, but it is easy to hide or deny our identity if we want, and it is too troublesome for outsiders to intervene in our conversations due to the effective moderation. Sorry if my responses were too long ;-) I have an IT business and am somewhat passionate about social engineering and sociology in general :-) There is even more I would say on this topic, but I probably said more than enough already lol I'm just glad this email list exists :-) On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:05 PM, M.G. Devour <[email protected]> wrote: > Victor wrote: > > I don't participate much, but I feel the email groups are necessary to > > protect people from prosecution, trolling, etc. A sad statement to be > > sure. > > I'm curious, Victor, in what way you believe the e-mail format protect > us? Particularly since we do have a web-accessible archive? > > Thank you for your thoughts. > > Be well, > > Mike D. > > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]> > > >
