>I support the concept of the Candor Club.  I think it is long overdue
>and was heartened to hear of it.  Thank you for propagating and
>supporting this idea.

>Since Google Groups appears to provide no information about the 20
>other members of this group, i thought i would post a brief
>introduction and see if anyone else would like to introduce themselves
>also.

> >Hello, folks.  My name is Ping and i'm a Berkeley graduate student.
> >Google will be happy to tell you many more things about me, though
> >unfortunately my website is down at the moment.

> >I support the concept of the Candor Club.  I think it is long overdue
> >and was heartened to hear of it.  Thank you for propagating and
> >supporting this idea.

> >Since Google Groups appears to provide no information about the 20
> >other members of this group, i thought i would post a brief
> >introduction and see if anyone else would like to introduce themselves
> >also.

> My name is Sunah. I live in Berkeley. I'm a book editor, and my big
> project now is moving to the mountains. I am very candid, and I'm
> often baffled when other people are not.

> I was interested in ?ing's point that the central site for the Candor
> Club, which is about identifying fellow candid-ates, has no
> information about members. What is that about?
> --
> --
> diagonal/oblique/separatrix/shilling/slant/slash/solidus/stroke/virgule

> Welcome, Ping and Sunah!

> I'm curious about your question - what kind of information would you
> like to see about the members?

> I can tell you a bit about myself. My name is Greg Slovacek and
> together with my friend Malcolm Handley I co-founded this
> organization. I'm a software engineer at Google, and I live in San
> Francisco.

> I can also tell you why we don't make information about our members
> publicly available. The reason is that a number of members may have
> privacy concerns, and we don't want to turn people away because of
> their perceived risk that their email address or other personally
> identifying information will be put out on the internet. We respect
> that and try to keep the candorclub website focused on the core
> organizational interests - namely, describing the organization,
> publicizing it, and managing its membership.

> However, there is a clear social directive here, which we do not wish
> to ignore. We want to encourage a community to be built around the
> concept of candor club. Membership in such a community would be
> completely voluntary. An example of the way this can be done is the
> orkut community:

>   http://orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=488389

> Thank you for bringing up the issue - we will try to put some of this
> information in the FAQ so it's more obvious to new members. Welcome to
> candor club!

> -G

> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:18:49 -0700, Sunah Cherwin <slipp...@pobox.com>  
> wrote:

>>> Hello, folks.  My name is Ping and i'm a Berkeley graduate student.
>>> Google will be happy to tell you many more things about me, though
>>> unfortunately my website is down at the moment.

>>> I support the concept of the Candor Club.  I think it is long overdue
>>> and was heartened to hear of it.  Thank you for propagating and
>>> supporting this idea.

>>> Since Google Groups appears to provide no information about the 20
>>> other members of this group, i thought i would post a brief
>>> introduction and see if anyone else would like to introduce  
>>> themselves
>>> also.

>> My name is Sunah. I live in Berkeley. I'm a book editor, and my big
>> project now is moving to the mountains. I am very candid, and I'm
>> often baffled when other people are not.

>> I was interested in ?ing's point that the central site for the Candor
>> Club, which is about identifying fellow candid-ates, has no
>> information about members. What is that about?
>> --
>> --
>> diagonal/oblique/separatrix/shilling/slant/slash/solidus/stroke/
>> virgule

> --
> -G
> ___________________________
> greg slovacek