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Re: privacy vs .mosaic-global-history
brlewis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 25 15:50:19 1993
Yes, ~/.history is the same issue. One one hand, it's more of a concern
because more people use csh than xmosaic, but on the other hand it gives
more detailed information.
I guess its similar to .newsrc and .meetings. Xmosaic seems a little
more extreme, in that you can see precisely what the user reads and
when.
I'm not personally concerned about people knowing what I read, but I'll
use myself as an example. You can look at my .newsrc and see what
newsgroups I subscribe to. But I usually just scan the subject lines,
and only read those articles I'm particularly interested in. Then I
"catch up". You don't know which ones I read.
With xmosaic, you can tell that I looked at the National Performance
Review table of contents on Fri Oct 22 15:28:13 1993.
When you use discuss for the first time, it at least tells you it's
creating a .meetings file. Same with netnews. With xmosaic I didn't
know what it was doing until I ran it a second time and noticed the
dotted underline on items I had already read.
