Re: Children at Play in the Schoolyard


"Renia" <renia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Don Moody wrote:
"Josiah Jenkins" <josiah-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:02:18 +0100, " Jill"
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Josiah Jenkins wrote:
"Don Moody" <dpmoody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Your own standards are indicated by your unwillingness
to publish your real name and real contact details.
On a newsgroup ?
Why not?
OK then, for the last 10 years it's been :

Josiah J Jenkins
Perfidious Alban Publishing
The Penthouse
Jenkins Towers
Clyde View
Govan
Scotland

Why, unless for advertising purposes, would anyone
want to put their full address in the public domain ?

In my case, as many people know, 'Josiah Jenkins'
is a Usenet persona . . . but it's one with a *valid*
e-mail address. That's sufficient public information
for any legitimate contact purposes on Usenet.


It is indeed enough - if you want to play silly buggers in subjects
which don't matter. It is not, and never will be, enough if you
want to be taken seriously as a contributor to a science.

This isn't a science newsgroup. It's a genealogy newsgroup.

Can you read? GeneaLOGY is a -logy, a branch of the search for
knowledge, which is what science is. Hence a genealogy newsgroup is,
by definition, a science newsgroup. You, like Josiah, have just
announced that your contributions are worthless by any standards of
science.

Your brought out elsewhere the tired old excuses for anonymity. They
won't wash. If for some personal reason one or more of those excuses
apply, then you have to take the view that you cannot publish in
science. I do now people, and have alluded to some on this very
newsgroup, whose identity and whereabouts must not be allowed into the
public domain for serious reasons such as being hunted by a maniac
intent on beheading them and their children. So they don't publish in
any medium the science they are perfectly capable of doing. If the
danger passes, then they can and will publish.

If you are bothered about your children being groomed through the Net
by some paedophile, the answer does not lie in pseudoanonymity. It
lies in teaching your children how to use the Net properly and
cautiously. And one of the cautions is never to answer any enquiry
without it comes from an ascertainable name and address, and then only
reluctantly and after checking with you. Being paranoid and trying to
protect them from everything is counter-productive. Where and how do
they then learn to survive in the real adult world?

No that is not theoretical science. I;ve got 5 kids and, so far, 12
grandkids.. Being got at through the Net is a real problem, and the
answer is open discussion and serious amounts of education.
Furthermore, if your lot are anything like mine, any attempt to wrap
them in cottonwool would have the protection slung aside and them
chancing their luck in private as soon as your back is turned.

Don


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