[kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist

[Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)]

 Ali,
Wouldn't anyone with Internet access still see the email address
anyway? (As KICTANet is public?)

On 11/10/2012, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> Kivuva
>
> The harm is that Kictanet is a mailing list which you subscribe to hence you
> have given explicit permission to carry your emails. Unless there is fine
> print somewhere that says otherwise which I doubt.
>
> Yesterday during the Intermediary Liability breakfast some of these issues
> were alluded to. I think it is wrong for another medium to pick it up and
> display your personal email address in a forum that you didn't give it
> permission to do.
>
> Ali Hussein
> CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
> Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd
>
> +254 773/713 601113
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 11, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
>
>> kictanet is an open forum, view-able by anybody in the planet who has the
>> capacity, and all emails are accessible by everybody.
>>
>> So where is the harm?
>>
>> On 11 October 2012 13:25, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ory
>>>
>>> Could kindly clarify. Is this blog in the Business Daily of NMG?
>>>
>>> Usually newspapers carry email addresses of authors as a sign of good
>>> faith. HOWEVER, you should have been informed that the paper intended to
>>> carry your comments for you to indicate if you were okay with that.
>>>
>>> Rgds
>>> GG
>>>
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:36:51 +0200
>>> From: ookolloh at gmail.com
>>> Subject: [kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist
>>> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>>> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear listers,
>>>
>>> A friend in Nairobi just emailed me this print article (attached)  in the
>>> Biz Daily paper where my comments on the ETNO proposal last week are
>>> featured as the "blog of the week" and my personal email address included
>>> as the "title of the blog"
>>>
>>> This is an outrageous abuse of this forum where the discussion is often
>>> open and insightful - do people now have to worry that their comments on
>>> Kictanet will be passed off as an article somewhere?
>>>
>>> *vexed*
>>>
>>>
>>> Ory
>>> I try to keep my emails short and to the point: http://emailcharter.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
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>>>
>>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and
>>> bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect
>>> privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>>
>>
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>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform
>> for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and
>> regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT
>> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and
>> development.
>>
>> KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors
>> online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
>> share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do
>> not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>


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