Posted by Rick on January 22, 2002, at 19:21:53
In reply to Re: Posting of email addresses » Rick, posted by tina on January 22, 2002, at 9:11:31
> Actually, I guess it's my anxiety disorder that keeps me from being that open and trusting of people I don't know. Not to mention other mental illnesses that affect that kind of decision like paranoid personality disorder, MPD, panic, OCD. I think all of these could make one very wary of sharing that kind of info with a public forum.
I see what you're saying. Even when P-B had more email addresses, many of those who *didn't* provide them were probably thinking/reacting similarly.
A couple more theories about the decline in providing addresses come to mind as well:
-- Earlier adapters of the internet were more accustomed to traditional newsgroups which are actually based on an email platform and encouarged 1:1 email exchanges. Earlier adapters were probably earlier P-B users as well.
-- Highly publicized security glitches/hacker successes over the past few years heightening the public's security concerns, which would tie back to fi's concerns.Rick
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