[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

[mike lojkovic]

I really, don't want to make it any easier for someone to spam me based on
correlations between account names.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Guus Snijders via arch-general
> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Op 6 mrt. 2017 10:52 schreef "Henrik Danielsson via arch-general" <
> > arch-general at archlinux.org>:
> >
> > > I guess I'll be the devil's advocate. I see no privacy issues in
> handing
> > > over a list of already public information You could deny it for
> practical
> > > reasons though, if you simply could not be bothered to scrape/export
> such a
> > > list yourself. Denying or allowing won't stop anyone from obtaining the
> > > list.
> >
>
> Gaetan's criticism applies to you here, now. please designate
> paragraphs of text which you reply to.
>
> > I know it's not directly an privacy issue, but I find it scary
> > nonetheless... (especially since they expressed the wish to consolidate
> the
> > data with other websites such as github).
>
> This is exactly for the argument I was struggling to come up with. As
> far as I followed the discussion, this was the first time (I
> realized?) someone clearly disconnected the argument from the privacy
> discussion. Put this way, it makes sense to me, too. For the practical
> implications we'd hand over along, with a note of "do whatever you
> want with it we don't care". Turns out we do care what someone else
> does with the data.
>
> cheers!
> mar77i
>