[pct-l] Privacy issues on the trail

At 02:05 PM 11/11/00 , sly@pocketmail.com wrote:
>.......I can't imagine anyone who has completed a thru-hike of the PCT, 
>and who
>signed registers along the way, objecting to a fellow PCT hiker's intent to
>place that information on a discreet public forum, for the benefit of other
>hikers.

There was an article in a recent PCTA Communicator (I think...)by a woman 
who was appalled that her name and progress was being disseminated to 
"strangers" on the internet.

I don't remember the details, but I think she was being mentioned in the 
online journals of other hikers and possibly on this list.

She considered this to be a threat to her life and well being since she was 
hiking alone.

Privacy issues are a funny thing, and people react differently to them.

-Brick

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