If we want to settle the issue once and for all, maybe one should go for an option to decide whether or not to send your email address or a per site basis. If the site was ftp.cyberpromo.com then sending your email address might be a bad idea. However I am happy to send my email address to sites like ftp.mirrors.ac.uk, and other large and well known ftp sites. It is extermely unliekly hensa passes on any email addrresses sent to anyone else (or even collects them).
A few ftp sites will actualy check what your give as a password is a RFC 822 complaint email address and deny you accesss otherwise. Many sites will log the source IP, the result of a reverese DNS lookup, and an ident response for the connection. Constructing an email address from this, given a version of ident that reveals user names, is not rocket science. My email address may be personal but it is not secret (ditto my postal address and telephone number). -- Duncan (-: "software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems." ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
