Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTN ALL DEVS

[Benjamin Coles <sj7trunks@gentoo.org>]

Hrmm. It's my fault, that was supposed to be under the list of stuff only 
gentoo developers can see... I think I got them confused with joined date, 
but the country field would be nice to know and it's broad enough to say 
that someone can't identify your place of living from the provided info 
available to the public. Unless you have it on your website that is of 
course=P
-Benjamin Coles


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Paul de Vrieze wrote:

> > 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
> 
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