From One Foot Out

[Gottabrain]

The general rule of operation, PH, is that any information posted to a membership board (i.e. one which requires a personal "login") is PRIVATE to THAT BOARD. This is so unless EXTERNAL release of data is specifically allowed either by the general terms of agreement for that board, or permission has been granted by the original poster.

This is simply "good manners" as well as respect for the terms of agreement. These are technically private boards by dint of their membership requirements & legal status. ...Mark A. Baker

This is actually an EXCELLENT point, Mark.

It is an easy way to discount the volumes of misleading Internet info attorneys such as Moxon have used against protestors that were quoted out of context and obtained from private boards. Good one.

 

[thetanic]

Trusting what someone says about another is not licence to publish word-of-mouth information. Sure, believe it, act upon it in your personal dealings with others, but telling the whole world? Nah. Trust but verify.

From where I sit today, the whole thing looks like an internecine marketing battle amongst those awaiting to gorge upon the expected banquet of carrion once the cult collapses. Like the battle between Coke and Pepsi, we seem to have the Independents on one side and the Free Zoners on the other each offering their own flavour KoolAid. Maybe OSA is stirring it all up - the thing is, there are no dox to confirm the situation either way.

Overall, this episode is just yet another example of why *everyone* should stay away from *any* form of Scientology all together. Keep it up.

Yeah, I'm sorry I got into the drama business with this one. I should know better. Frankly, I don't give a crap who "wins" that one.

 

[Dulloldfart]

The general rule of operation, PH, is that any information posted to a membership board (i.e. one which requires a personal "login") is PRIVATE to THAT BOARD.

I would suggest that in the real world anything that is findable in a general Google search is fair game. If you're lucky, someone quoting it will link back to the original.

So most of ESMB is fair game. But posts on Terril's FreezoneOrg Yahoo group, which are not indexed in Google, aren't. For example, Google (including the quote marks) "Reminds me of doing that E-Meter Drill". That's a phrase from a FreezoneOrg post of mine in 2006. I get one hit, to a webpage of mine showing some of my FZ posts, but not to the Yahoo forum.

Paul

 

[Voltaire's Child]

I've never been able to find, via google, any text from any yahoo group subscription list boards, YET, on OCMB back when Tory and a few others were running a campaign of intimidation against me (they were trying to force me to discuss every single thing I'd ever done in CofS after being repeatedly told no) someone said he was sick of that and so he did a search, he claimed, and posted something that had been (erroneously but he didn't know that) posted by an FZ auditor I'd had dealings with on a yahoo group FZ forum about me.

I wonder if he really did a search or if he just infiltrated the group and was just being a lying sack of shit.