Re: Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

Daniel Brown wrote:

On Jan 19, 2008 12:30 PM, David Powers wrote:

Yes, and it's obvious how that happens. It's because people, including yourself, don't have the courtesy to set up your email or newreader program to remove the sender's address from replies.

    By removing the email address, it completely defeats the purpose

of post tracking. That bit may have escaped you from the layout of the report.

I wasn't referring to that, but to the thoughtless way that you and others automatically include the sender's email address in plain text every time you respond to a post. Surely it's not too much to ask that you set your mail program or newsreader so that it doesn't display the address?

    Considering this is the second time it's been (properly) sent out,

I highly doubt, David, that I've contributed to your inbox being bombarded with SPAM. Get to the point.... do you want your address omitted?

Point 1: Yes, I do want my address removed. Point 2: My address has been exposed by the thoughtless acts of others not setting their mail program/newsreader options correctly. Apart from the ex-BBC forum (where I have since changed the settings and edited the relevant post), all Google references to my email address came from the archives of this list. That's where the spam has probably started. By publishing a weekly list of email addresses, you're just making life easier for the spam merchants.

If you intend to store the email addresses of people using this mailing list, there should be a clear statement of privacy policy on the PHP site. If there is one, I couldn't find it.

    That's because it has nothing to do with the PHP site or project.

It's a private project intended to be of interest to those who post here. And you're here as well.

Whoah, hang on a moment. It has everything to do with the PHP site and project. It's hosted on the php.net news server. When I subscribed to the PHP general mailing list I did not give permission for this. This is an international list, and what you're doing breaks EU privacy laws, and possibly those in other countries too. Please remove my name and details from your system. -- David Powers