On Nov 29, 2007 3:41 PM, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/29/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
No, they're private. The words aren't synonyms.
Private, however, implies secret-- or rather, that secrets are held within what is private. Otherwise, what's the point?
In the case of what's going on in the bedroom, I'd say secret has a negative connotation, whereas private doesn't.
But in terms of mailing lists, I'd say secret implies that the existence, name, and/or the topic of the mailing list is intentionally kept from public knowledge, whereas private could mean either that the contents of the mailing lists are kept from public knowledge and/or the membership of the mailing list is not open to the public.
I'd also say that up until Durova's email was leaked, the cyberstalking list was kept fairly secret, and the investigations list was kept secret until even more recently (Guy wouldn't even reveal its name), and a third list (which Guy alluded to previously) might even still be a secret (have any details about it yet been revealed?).