Re: [UUPoly-L] Public Archives Redux

[Timothy McKee <mknd17@hotmail.com>]

I think the issue is sort of like what do you want your children to know about your private life. Children are perceptive and any behavior that goes too far against the grain will be questioned.  I think for polyamory to be considered a progressive and legitimate social movement having a public profile is a good way to bear witness to the legitimacy of polyamory.

 

The group I belonged to in the early 1970s--the Children of God--is have difficulty with their second generation due to the fact they had sexual abuse of minors in the late 1970s and during the 1980s.  They have renounced some of their behaviors, but still struggle towards being considered legitimate in the type of polyamory they espouse.

 

Today is the 83rd anniversary of the death of Rudolph Valentino. One of my favorite stories is the annual pilgrimage--on August 23rd--of Ditra Flame to his crypt with roses in hand.

 

Tim
 
> From: dwighternest@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:11:06 -0400
> To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
> Subject: [UUPoly-L] Public Archives Redux
> 
> Those of us who moderate or manage the list from time to time receive notes
> from folks asking us to expunge evidence of their having been participants
> here. (List archives get indexed by search engines like Google, of course,
> because, as noted in the disclaimer which appears on every message, the list
> archives are public. However, the list of members' email addresses is
> private, so if you just receive and never send, no such publicly-indexed
> evidence will exist.)
> While this expunging is technically possible, the process is onerous because
> it's complicated and time-consuming. It also raises some ethical dilemmas,
> such as how to handle others' quoting of the requester's content in their
> own responses.
> 
> So I put the question to you all, dear fellow manager/moderators, and to you
> as well, dear contributors: Should we make the archives private?
> 
> -Dwight Ernest
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