>I'm going to ask Doug to delete all references to this thread. I did not
>ask anyone to talk about my history. I am looking for a job, folks, and I
>have been canned once,a nce lost my academic career, because of
>red-baiting. Puleezz! Don't be stupid and harmful. Doug, help!
you have already got your own self in plenty of hot water. you've spoken of your past a great deal. do a phrase search on your name at google, http://www.google.com/search?q=%22justin+schwartz%22 [1] look what comes up. everything you've ever posted here and it's not necessarily ordered by date. anyone on this list who might work for someone or some entity that wouldn't understand who uses their full name may face the same issues. i know about this first hand, myself. i use a different address for work stuff so that clients can't google me.
since doug won't make the archives list member only (for good reasons, since this place is a brain trust for google searches on lefty topics and doug (mainly, but "we" also) made that happen. it's a lot of hard work to create and run a list.), my advice is that you should not go by your real full name. i (and doug and gary norris) have had to deal with a weirdo net loon, so i've taken steps to use two different names. no one here knows my real last name, for instance, tho some may guess and any proficient searcher will discover it, eventually, or figure out the possibilities.
1. for posting online in places that might get you in hot water for some reason, get another email account for posting to archived lists. provide an entirely different address to prospective employers.
--web mail is free
--pop mail that you can download into a stand alone mailer like
Outhose and Eudora is inexpensive ($5./month generally)
--it's relatively inexpensive (5$ i think) to get a vanity account
like Nathan has. nathan at newman.org
--there are other options, google is your friend.
--most ISPs in the states allow you to have at least one alias. i've
used the alias, "No Orb" <only.a.sfhere at gte.net>
2. don't use your full name as a from name. if someone does a search on your name it will come up in all kinds of places.[1] use only one name. or use initials that you don't use for prospective employers.
3. if you have a characteristic signature, such as jks, don't use it on lists AND in professional correspondence. also, alter the way you sign off. if you typically post your initials directly at the end of the last sentence you typed, don't do it in your online posts. but most of all, don't use your full name.
i'm not paranoid...
kelley
[1] justin, this is what comes up first. they'll have to look a little to find refs to your socialist past, but not too hard, since you make them frequently:
LBO-Talk July 1998 by thread
... Re: GM strike C. Petersen; Re: GM strike Justin Schwartz; RE: against 'entrenched identities' Michael Eisenscher; Stiglitz' loose talk again Doug Henwood: ... nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9807/ - 101k - Cached - Similar pages LBO-Talk December 2000: Re: A Fresh Start At Looking At ...
... From: Justin Schwartz (jkschw at hotmail.com) Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 20:30:27 EST: Next message: Carrol Cox: "Re: A Fresh Start At Looking At Labor And The Labor ... nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0012/1258.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from nuance.dhs.org ]
Progressive Economists Network by Date ... 30 December 2000: Re: answering conservatives Justin Schwartz; answering conservatives Eugene Coyle; Re: Re: Re: Energy deregulation Eugene Coyle; Labor markets ... csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2000IV/ - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
Progressive Economists Network by Thread... answering conservatives, 30 December 2000 Eugene Coyle Jeffrey L. Beatty Justin Schwartz Jim Devine Ken Hanly Yoshie Furuhashi Jim Devine Seth Sandronsky Max ... csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2000IV/threads.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from csf.colorado.edu ]