From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261292AbUCQKXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:23:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261355AbUCQKXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:23:00 -0500 Received: from krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:30410 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261292AbUCQKWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:22:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:22:49 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: TLD.rmk.(none) junk in BitKeeper logs where BK_HOST belongs? Message-ID: <20040317102249.GA6464@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linux-Kernel mailing list References: <20040316184455.GA31710@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040316193014.B7886@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1079479795.17681.6.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1079479795.17681.6.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. Why would it? I see legal ways to provide such information - and after all, we want the authors' names rather than their addresses in the frist place, at least in "shortlog". -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95