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

David Powers wrote: > 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? I think David is making a good point here. I've never actually looked at it myself, but my knode and thunderbird both only use the name of the sender, not the email-address, when adding the "so-and-so wrote:" line. > By publishing a weekly list of email addresses, > you're just making life easier for the spam merchants. I would tend to agree with that. Besides, the posting stats will loose nothing if the email-address is removed. >> 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. The mailing list yes, but not Daniels statistics. > 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. Hmm, I'm not so sure about that. By participating on a public mailing list, you accept that your postings and your email-address may be essentially be sent to all and sundry. /Per Jessen, Zürich