From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261826AbUCPX36 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:29:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261841AbUCPX36 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:29:58 -0500 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:38034 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261826AbUCPX34 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:29:56 -0500 Subject: Re: TLD.rmk.(none) junk in BitKeeper logs where BK_HOST belongs? From: David Woodhouse To: Russell King Cc: Linux-Kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20040316193014.B7886@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20040316184455.GA31710@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040316193014.B7886@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1079479795.17681.6.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-8.dwmw2.2) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:29:55 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- dwmw2