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Roy Kim
San Diego, California, United States

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September 26, 2003

Moral Dilemma

Do you ever run into a problem that just halts everything? It shouldn't everything, but it does?

For instance, I was working on syndicating commenting data over XML... and then I ran into problems. Do I syndicate e-mail addresses? Tabulas inherently protects all e-mail addresses.. but the moment I syndicate all e-mail addresses, that value is gone.

So what do I do? Argh!!!!!

I haven't been able to do any work until I get this figured out. Do you think the privacy of the e-mails trumps the ability to freely syndicate data?
Currently listening to: Kid Rock's Cowboy
Posted by roy on September 26, 2003 at 08:53 PM | 5 Comments

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dodozhang21
Comment posted on September 27th, 2003 at 12:30 PM
no syndicating email addresses please! thank you!
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kdb003
Comment posted on September 27th, 2003 at 12:25 PM
Do not syndicate the email addresses! Privacy is more important than freely syndicated data.
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sanjiv
Comment posted on September 27th, 2003 at 05:19 AM
Syndicate the data, and password protect the XML sheet.
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tabulas
Comment posted on September 27th, 2003 at 08:20 AM
No, you're missing the point. It's not about that. If someone comments in my journal, does that give ME the right to freely publish their e-mail ... or does that give me the right to even have access to their e-mail, especially if Tabulas purports to protect your e-mail?
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threeormoresome
Comment posted on September 27th, 2003 at 12:58 PM
Sorry I'm so late on chiming in. Are you able to syndicate the comment without the e-mail address? I think that hiding the e-mail address in Tabulas is a very good thing, and therefore the e-mail address should not be made a part of the feed. I would, however, like to have comments included with the feed IF it doesn't expose addresses.
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