Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:39:16 -0700 From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <552834F4.6030409@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com>
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On 2015-04-10 06:31, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Lets look at this in a different way. I believe that email address are > consitered as private personal information and covered under the privacy > information U.S. law which says they can not be exposed to the public. While there are precedents for email addresses treated as private information, the contexts for those precedents do not apply. The email address stored in the port's maintainer information is a published point of contact. It is, by definition, public information and necessarily so. Public is public--you don't get to control who uses that information. If you want to curtail spam to your maintainer address, use a gmail account. Google's spam filters are very good at filtering out the black- and grey-hat spam that gets sent to maintainer addresses.
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