Popularity Contest: (Dapper) bouncing mail

[Matthew Flaschen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>>> Seems a little unnecessary - why would they feel that I _must_ give them
>>> a valid email address?  It makes me a little less confident of their
>>> promises to not misuse any information they collect.
>> Don't be paranoid.  They're not out to get you; they weren't even at the
>> meeting...  
> 
> :-)
> 
> I'm not paranoid.  I just feel that when you promise not to misuse private
> information, you should collect as little private information as possible.

I agree.

> privacy laws make me responsible for protecting that information.

I feel fairly confident that Ubuntu developers can deal with this
information securely.  I'm not /certain/ they do, but they can.  That
said, email is not a secure medium.

> Whether it's a default mail configuration (_not_ the default of any mail
> server I've installed) is really pretty irrelevant.  I could also say that
> running something like popcon on a mail server that the administrators
> don't really understand makes me less confident in their promises...

This does seem like a plausible default to me, but a default that
discloses information /does not/ seem plausible.

Matthew Flaschen