Posted by Chung Leong on 03/10/06 04:08

Peter Chant wrote:
> Well, not confidential as in credit card numbers, but not necessarily
> public. Also making it not public deflects some hastle from the people who
> think computers are the work of the devil and the internet doubly so. I'm
> giving them less excuse to complain. Some people don't give out their
> phone numbers on the basis that we'll give them to double glazing companies
> and the such like! As if we'd do that. It makes it a real pain in the
> arse when we have the need to contact them urgently.

Just because a site isn't password-protected doesn't make it "public."
If a site isn't indiced by a search engine, then it's private enough.
It's sort of like keeping your phone number off the telephone book.

My basic point is that people in general don't seek out information
that they don't need. If secrecy isn't required, then it seems
counterproductive to put up a barrier.

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