[Cialug] I Don't Hate Tikly--a Thoughtful Side-Topic Opinion

[David Champion]

I usually register with something like user+freepizza at mydomain.com, or I
can create a one-off account if needed, that way I can look at / block
whatever any messages with the "freepizza" tag. The number of times I've
actually had to worry about that is very small.

-dc


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> I think Jim's point is more that, in a LOT of cases, your data sits in a
> database somewhere when it really does not need to.
>
> In the RSVP case, it would seem the most important info to get is a head
> count.  That seems an ideal situation for the hash, count and drop table
> scenario.
>
> This idea that free pizza or the like should be an excuse for
> companies/people to expect data seems wrong to me.
>
> This said, services that provide inordinate value to me -such as gmail- I
> have a more tolerant view towards.  Whether or not this SHOULD be the case,
> I leave up for discussion.
>
> Just my 2¢
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
> >wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:00:28AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> > > I agree, Todd. If I'm providing something to you at no cost - pizza,
> > > running a mailing list or forum, etc. and you can't even tell me your
> > real
> > > name and email address, then please do not expect to get anything from
> me
> > > in return.
> >
> > Yeah.  If the group itself does the head-count, then getting a list of
> > hashes is kinda weird.  Besides that hashing is just hand-waving in this
> > context anyway.
> >
> > Who is collecting the data?  I think that matters more than the data
> > itself.
> >
> > Nicolai
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