I've been asked by Tantek not to make "reductio-ad-absurdem" analogies but, I'm not convinced what I'm going to say is a reductio ad absurdem argument as I think it exposes how we are thinking about the issue at hand. So, this is the question I'm asking myself: Thieves have been picking locks for centuries, should we give them the keys, too?
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Michael MD <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Tantek Celik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Such companies are already going to far greater extents to scrape >>> anything resembling contact information (without really caring about false >>> >>positives etc since as your quotes point out quantity is their game) from >>> text, HTML etc on the web using text entity recognizers etc. > > Spammers have been scraping email addresses from websites for years without > needing to look at hCard. > > Giving users options to choose what is displayed on their profiles sounds > like the way to go. > (whether or not those profiles are marked up with hCard) > > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
