From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18574 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Sep 2003 08:49:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31696 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2003 08:49:16 -0000 Message-ID: <43319.134.188.150.80.1064825356.squirrel@callisto.cs.kun.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030929071902.GA27430%chutz@gg3.net> References: <1064805321.2112.1.camel@dupre.home><200309282337.34607.vapier@gentoo.org> <20030929071902.GA27430%chutz@gg3.net> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:49:16 +0200 (CEST) From: "Paul de Vrieze" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS X-Archives-Salt: 1cf41a5f-7107-4c53-8a3c-fcb98b893107 X-Archives-Hash: 5e8ecc7f5a0af4aade08ee13f5eefe18 > On 28/09/2003 at 23:37:28(-0400), Mike Frysinger used 1.6K just to say: > > Actually in Japan knowing someone's birthday (...birthDATE actually) is > sometimes enough to convince someone over the phone that YOU are the > person in > question. Gentoo has a bunch of Japanese devs and I wouldn't be surprised > if > they don't feel like sharing that info. > > Hell, I even know plenty of people who don't want to do any online > shopping, > because they don't want to give away their address. > I think birthday can private. Nothing is yet published anyway. I don't see however the problem with the country of origin being public. The country is allready published on the current developer list too. It can hardly be said that it is identifying information, but it helps in knowing when people can be contacted (timezone's). Paul -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list