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       PRIVACY - please read and respond
       By: PaulF Date: January 19, 2017, 3:28 am
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       Concerns have been expressed regarding privacy of information on
       here, as it is a "public forum" (insofar as anybody using the
       internet could land here).
       As originally conceived, people would put the minimum possible
       information in posts, and then use other users' registration
       details to contact them directly - and those details can only be
       read by other registered users (ie. they are not public). I felt
       that an AIMS number was pretty cryptic to anybody outside the
       intended user group, and yet was enough to permit a trip trade
       to take place. The option to read and post as a guest was left
       available as I didn't want to force people to have to register
       or sign in if they preferred not to.
       Also with regard to privacy, there is hardly anything in here at
       the moment which talks about what this forum is actually about
       (really!!) so you would have to come here deliberately . And
       whilst it is not linked to anything else much on the internet,
       it won't attract the attention of internet spiders or feature in
       search engine results. So at the moment, my feeling is that it
       is a low threat to privacy of information.
       However, the option is available to make this forum less
       publicly visible - this would mean that it is not included in
       the Createaforum directory, and users will have to be registered
       and login to use it. Over 110 people have registered already, so
       the registration is less of an obstacle than I imagined it would
       be. Would this be a preferable arrangement?
       Paul
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