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US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online
An anonymous reader writes "After receiving around 10 thousand comments about a government proceeding and after promising not to reveal personal info from those comments online, the US Treasury department decided to post email addresses of those who commented online. Sounds like they don't want any more comments about government proceedings. The email harvesters are going to have a great time."
Hey now, just because you cant afford your own "undisclosed location" dont be player hating our VP.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
We have anti-spam laws now.
Those will stop the spammers and email harvesters.
Clif
clifgriffin > blog
Just show the treasury you disaprove by not using their products. If enough people do this they'll get the message and change their policies.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
If you drink, don't scribe.
If you post it, they will read.
Shouldn't that be duh-wah?
I know what you mean. I think we should all get behind this Senator Palpatine guy during the next election.
"Sometimes I wish we had a dictator." Me me me Pick me ! Pick me ! theeeen we will see how long those spammers last hahahahaha
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
It seems that nobody is allowed privacy in this White House administration except GWB and friends
Dubya
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington DC
That'll show him!
The terms of this agreement may change without notice.
Looks like terms just changed.
Of course I'm a student, so I'm pretty much doing that anyway.
Mike Hoye
I'll contact each of those addresses asking if they'd like to be removed from the list. I'll even provide them with some valuable offers to compensate them for the inconvience of answering.
Heck, I'll provide the government with a share of the profits.
Win win win baby!
This is the government we're talking about here. If it's not written in COBOL or ADA they don't want anything to do with it.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
For crying out loud. Please tell me you're compelled by the law or by a Supreme Court decision. Tell me you didn't notice. Tell me you don't care about privacy. Tell me it's an April Fools Joke. But please, please, don't tell me you're posting them because you can't get rid of them. It just makes you look silly. The answer is Perl and a competent scripter. Send the data to me after I sign a nondisclosure and I'll clean it for you. It's not that much data anyway.
For Pete's Sake!
RP
...you can live quite nicely without handling any physical money (or even checks) at all. Heck, don't most Slashdotters live that way already?
BTW, more money is out there in non-physical form than there is physical money.
You are married as well, I see....
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Sure... you can file a complaint with the FTC. But you must include your email address.
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Still feel good about voting the republicans in ?
I still haven't gotten around to making a bumper sticker that says "Don't blame me, I don't live in a swing state."
Well, then don't fuck with people with a lot more deterrence than you. Either way, you still get 28,000 Viagra spams.
It might as well be an anti-free speech measure. Bush has stated he never reads newspapers or watches news on the TV. He only knows what he's been told. Ok, the first part doesn't make sense, but I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. Or maybe you can't. Actually, I forgot where I was going to go with this.
Yes, it's still a trivial regex, but don't assume ".com".
Maybe the US troops in Iraq should come back to liberate this country.
Doesn't the entire state of Wyoming qualify as an "undisclosed location?"
"If it's not written in COBOL or ADA they don't want anything to do with it."
I didn't know Microsoft actually made VisualCOBOL and VisualADA...