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To: chester lee who wrote (1793)	7/4/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Early Out	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32871

I would debate the privacy issue. I find the issue troubling where it is OK for a person I don't know to bookmark me, with the deliberate intention of reading my posts in anonymous delight, and yet it is an invasion of his/her privacy if I know they are reading material I wrote. It's not like I'm holding a gun to their head forcing them to bookmark me. They can read your public posts without bookmarking you, so the fact they have a bookmark on you has nothing to do with you, just makes things easier for them. I liken this to a phone book. Privacy as an owner of a phone is protected, if you so choose, by not listed your telephone number. If your number is listed, is it an invasion of your privacy if someone looks up your phone number in the white pages? What if it is a friend and so they highlight the phone number or even bookmark it for easy reference. Is that an invasion of your privacy? Maybe a better example is if you were John Grisham. It's somehow an invasion of your privacy if I ask Barnes & Noble to put me on the waiting list for your next book? You have chosen to post to a public forum. If it makes you uncomfortable that someone might choose to bookmark you as to make it easier to find what you have written, then I respectfully suggest you either stop posting, or get over it. -jsc P.S. - I may have you bookmarked, but you'll never know! :-)