| Re: Delete Account [message #3057 is a reply to message #3055] |
Mon, 10 June 2002 01:49   |
Olliver
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Registered: March 2002
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Ala 1, I ve just found ur argument that the ability of deleting one's account would be vital to avoid spamming. This is absolutely not true because the email address can be hidden. So only the administrators (rarely more than 2 persons, rest are moderators which cannot access the admin panel) would have access to the email address. Spammers can only misuse addresses by finding them somewhere on a page. or a bot does this job for them. Please explain to me where u have to expose ur email address when posting messages? And furthermore, please explain to me how a spammer should get the email address from if it was hidden? Have u ever read the warnings when editing ur profile? U get explicitely warned about exposing private data, that it could raise privacy issues u may not want to be confronted with. And u *DO* have the option of keeping ur data private in FUD, ur account won't cease functioning if u don't enter any more data. There's even *NO* option for forcing people to reveal more data. I u really run the FUD u ought to know that already. So why the hell should be the administrator to blame if people don't make use of simple security measures of ensuring their privacy? In most cases people just get spammed because they simply fill out any form that comes across their way with their email address. the same kind of people that use Windows and execute any attachment that they get sent. And if it was a Trojan Horse or a Worm and they noticed the mess they brought themselves into, they'd cry for security measures and authorities to protect them from their carelessness. If people cannot take care for themselves even when they get informed in advanced then they should immediately sell their computer and turn to something less dangerous.
It would be really interesting to learn from the source of ur claim FUD wouldn't be compliant to German law. Please provide a link to a German page where the "mass-mailing" laws are named which FUD would be in conflict with. I have my doubts that they exist.
Ken
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