Re: News from COMMON?

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

I wondered as well about the use of Email addressees.
There likely is a member of Common board and the iSociety project
that can speak to the confidentiality/privacy or use of  email addresses
acquired in this manner.

At 11:02 AM 9/19/2006, Rich Loeber wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Having a signin is a way of collecting email addresses.  My question is: "What
> are they going to be used for?".  Am I going to be bombarded now with requests
> to join COMMON .... or worse yet, is COMMON going to sell these to 
> vendors as a
> way of raising money?
>
> Rich Loeber
> Kisco Information Systems
> http://www.kisco.com
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Greg Wenzloff wrote:
>
> > Bruce Collins wrote:
> >
> > "Hey Vern,
> >
> > We are making the change so you as the user will not have to use 
> your  COMMON
> > ID assigned to you at the time of signup. You will be able to use 
> the  unique
> > name or the COMMON ID. We will post here when the change has been made.
> >
> > Hoss"
> > ---------------
> > Hoss,
> >
> > Why does there need to be any sign in procedure?   If you want people to
> > use the site it should be inviting not exclusive.   The site clearly is
> > a COMMON site not particularly an iSociety site.   We don't have to sign
> > into midrange to post or read this forum.
> >
> > Get rid of that whole sign in procedure or at least only require an ID
> > for posting things.
> >
> > Just my opinion,
> > Greg
> >
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