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

[Ali Hussein]

True. Though at the risk of sounding pedantic its the principle of the matter..

Ali Hussein

+254 773/713 601113

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On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:36 PM, "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <nmutungu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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