[CIMC-work] Re: Please remove my street address!!!

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

FYI: Another article of Jim Crawford's has been repost to the CIMC
newswire, complete with fleshspace address and phone.  But I went ahead
and removed both address and phone from the post...

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, James Crawford wrote:

> Dear Ms. Fraser,
> 
> Posting my email address along with the article is fine, and so is linking
> to my web site. Or you could remove the article from your site. I really
> don't care.
> 
> What was not fine was your posting of my home street address along with my
> article. After a week of sending repeated hysterical emails, I finally got
> the attention of someone named Chris, who complied with my request and
> removed my address.
> 
> All this has been a lesson to me. From now on, I plan to ignore any and all
> requests to repost my work on amateur sites such as yours that can't even
> answer their email on a timely basis.
> 
> James Crawford
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Elizabeth Fraser" <ehf at bookbeast.com>
> To: <jwcrawford at compuserve.com>
> Cc: <chicago at indymedia.org>; <anarch3m at lycos.com>;
> <imc-chicago-working at lists.indymedia.org>; <chicago-tech at indymedia.org>;
> <JWhitfi894 at aol.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:16 AM
> Subject: RE: [CIMC-work] Fwd: [IMC-Editorial] Please remove my street
> address!!!
> 
> 
> >
> > The e-mail address was listed a number of times in the article and was
> > included in your copyright notice as well as a link to your pages--I
> > have removed the links to your e-mail, but the copyright direction to
> > your website and whatever's included there remains.  I don't know who
> > Mr. Whitfield is--or whether he has any association with Chicago
> > Indymedia. Indymedia is open posting and anyone can post.
> >
> > We would need to remove the copyright notice to remove all links to your
> > website.  Should we remove these notice or just take the pages down
> > altogether.  I've removed the two listings of the e-ail address --
> > including the one included in the copyright notice which are included in
> > the copyright notice.
> >
> > --Elizabeth / Chicago Tech volunteer
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: imc-chicago-working-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
> > [mailto:imc-chicago-working-bounces at lists.indymedia.org] On Behalf Of
> > anarch3m
> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:33 PM
> > To: imc-chicago-working at lists.indymedia.org; JWhitfi894 at aol.com
> > Cc: jwcrawford at compuserve.com
> > Subject: [CIMC-work] Fwd: [IMC-Editorial] Please remove my street
> > address!!!
> >
> >
> > I have no idea who is this Mr. Whitfield.  I am presuming he is
> > associated with Chicago IMC?  Or did he merely post there?
> >
> > In any case its your site Chicago, please do take this gentleman's
> > address off the posting.
> >
> > Frankly I don't know what it was whomever had in mind when that was put
> > into the interface and not marked with an "advisio this is going to show
> > up with the post"
> >
> > Walt
> > list admin, "global" editorial w/g-
> >
> > -
> >
> >
> > --------- Forwarded Message ---------
> > DATE: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:50:36
> > From: "James Crawford" <jwcrawford at compuserve.com>
> > To: <JWhitfi894 at aol.com>
> > Cc: imc-editorial at indymedia.org
> >
> >
> > Dear Mr. Whitfield,
> >
> > I haven't heard back from you and I notice that my home street address
> > is still posted along with my article on the Chicago indymedia site:
> > http://www.chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=29135
> >
> > In case I didn't make myself clear, I find this very upsetting. It is a
> > serious invasion of my privacy. I do not want to be harassed by any of
> > the considerable number of English-only zealots I have antagonized over
> > the years. So I NEVER give out my home address except to trusted
> > persons. I thought I could count on your discretion or I would never
> > have given it to you.
> >
> > Again, I ask that you IMMEDIATELY take steps to get my address removed
> > from the web site. Otherwise I will withdraw my permission to use the
> > article.
> >
> > Jim Crawford
> >
> > --------- End Forwarded Message --------- 
> >
> >
> >
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