lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Mar]   [17]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
DateWed, 17 Mar 2004 11:22:49 +0100
FromMatthias Andree <>
SubjectRe: TLD.rmk.(none) junk in BitKeeper logs where BK_HOST belongs?
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 19:30 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > and read through the (flash) bits.  Now consider "are email addresses
> > information which can be used to identify individuals?"  The answer is
> > "yes".  Are we storing that in a kind of database?  Yes.  Therefore,
> > does this fall under the terms of the Data Protection Act?  Yes.
> 
> You already have my email address in your copy of the BK tree. You
> achieve nothing by simply not adding _more_ valid email addresses.
> 
> I think civil disobedience in this case is appropriate.

Why would it? I see legal ways to provide such information - and after
all, we want the authors' names rather than their addresses in the frist
place, at least in "shortlog".

-- 
Matthias Andree

Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:01    [from the cache]
©2003-2008