[NTLK] Age of List

[Florian Voigt]

> On 29. Mar 2018, at 03:23, Dan <dan at dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a big difference.  Yes the email it attached to every message sent to the list.  And everyone on the list sees it, BUT it is not shown in the archive.  It is obfuscated. 

> Back to original subject of "public" there are different levels.  Yes the address, and perhaps IP is visible to everyone on the list at the time, but it is obfuscated when added to the archive.  

http://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2018-March/015830.html

>  It is out of respect for others, one apparently you don't consider worthwhile, but many of us do.

Wow. You sure are fast to bring out the big guns by calling me respectless. There are quite some respectless people on this list then.

I really don’t get the fear of spam. It’s 2018. The nigerian princes and viagra salesmen stopped mailing me years ago. The only “spam” ever to hit my junk folder (not inbox) is some newsletter of sites that I registered an account at. And that’s easily dealt with. I get that it may be different for you, I just want to explain why I don’t see a big problem with spam.

> Also why is Facebook in so much hot water right now after user data was leaked without their permission (including phone numbers, IP, and email addresses)?  I mean it was public after all?  Right?  See my point?

I never new that phone numbers, IPs and email addresses where public on Facebook. The problem with Facebook is a common misconception that you too fell for. There was no leak. It’s the busyness model of Facebook to sell your data. And that’s what they did. Facebook worked as designed. Basically their business model is what worries me (much more than spam bots seing my mail address). That was my point.

OK, I see how this is really getting off-topic. If I offended you, please accept my apologies. I really don’t want to argue with me. I am just very much for data conservation in its most pristine form available. If your view on this is different, that’s fine by me.

Cheers,

Florian