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Name: Erik Sherman
Location: Massachusetts, United States

I'm an independent writer and photographer who covers business, food, technology, books, media, general features, and pretty much anything appealing that results in a signed check. My work has appeared in such places as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, Fortune, Inc, Fortune Small Business, the Financial Times, Advertising Age, Saveur, US News & World Report, and Continental

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

ProfNet Update

Yesterday I noted that someone was re-posting ProfNet queries onto an open site on the Internet. I have a call today and was told that things looked resolved, but would get an email when it was official. Just got the email:
The queries issue has been resolved. The site has been taken down and the person's ProfNet account has been terminated.
It's good that this particular episode is over, but this isn't the first time that it has happened. I'd say that anyone using ProfNet or any of the other query distribution services will have to be someone circumspect going forward and assume, like you must with anything written, that it could come back to haunt you publicly.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for following up on this -- I was horrified by your first post, it seemed such a breach of trust for that info to be public.
tx
cal

March 27, 2008 11:55 AM  

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