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Huh?
I think what musick is attempting to say is that Sparteye will only give out her address and directions to those who specifically ask to come. Otherwise there would be people sleeping in the bathtub.
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Does Sparteye or Helen or anyone involved in organizing have a list of Ayes and Maybes? If so, I'd love to see it. Don't see any reason why it can't be posted here (like the Birth Anniversaries) unless someone has a security objection that hasn't occurred to me.
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well, there is one (albeit paranoid) consideration with posting notices that you'll be away from the board (for instance) -- it announces to the world that you prolly won't be home.
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you prolly won't be home.
But if only our Board names are posted, how can anyone, including most of us, connect a name with a street address with the intent of doing mischief? Or am I missing something?
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It would depend on how much info (such as location, etc.) you have in your Profile or in posts. I suppose a determined hacker could read your PM's or profile info on your AWAD acct or on the email acct you put in your AWAD profile. I don't know how difficult that is.
Anyway, those of us who don't live alone won't be leaving the house unguarded (unless the whole family comes along). Also, you could have a neighbor "housewatch" for you.
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We are actually quite free on this board-- and more than one poster has over the course of time, given a real last name, a mothers maiden name, a place of work, and a town-- it wouldn't take much to get his/her home address-- and you have almost enough information to do something dangerous!
but on the other hand, we have one member of this board pay visits to about 10 others.. so about 10 members of the board, for sure, are not axe murderers, lying in wait for their next victim. the jury is still out on me, Cap't K was afraid to meet up with me... smart man! but i sit by my grindstone waiting the day....
part of our freedom lies in our nature-- i think word lovers can't help but to be at least slightly liberal-- even Jazz-- our conservative republican -- i think he would be fight for what, in the US is shorthanded as, freedom of the press-- the right to free expression. (which includes words, and images) we champion it, and we practice it, and we all seem to revel in it!
It is wonderful that Sparteye has gone out on a limb-- and opened her house to us. I suppose there is a small possiblity of some "unsavory" character showing up.. but i think enough of us savor the comradery of AWAD, and look forward to meeting each other.. any unsavory character is not going to be let to get away with anything.
it would be nice to think, that smart people like us are always good people.. (well, i am smart, and damn, i am good too!) but i can understand paranoia--
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Jazz-- our conservative republican
Without digressing into politics, I am not a Republican! (in the political party sense of the word) I'm a libertarian. You've just heard my ecomonic opinions more than my social ones. But we're not going to get into that.
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Well, I for one am planning on it, and I'm not afraid who knows it. Burgle away - if you schedule your mischief that far in advance! The roomie will be home holding down the fort and griming up the bathtub while I'm gone, of that much I can be sure... 
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