The following is an e-mail I sent, more than a month ago, to the authors of
this site/distro, using the contact form, and to which I never got a response
back.
I'll present the full text of it and then I'll add some things about it.
(Because I can't find any reference to a "moderator" on the forum, I'm
sending this message through this mean, instead...)
I'm writing you because of one thing that is bothering me *much*, concerning
the messages exchanged on the forum.
When I registered on your site, upon asking for an e-mail address, it said
"the e-mail address is not made public". And when I check my e-mail options
in the "Account information" section (in "Home ยป My account") the same
statement is there - that my e-mail address "is not made public".
Yet, in one exchange of messages on the forum - where one of the users used
some mailing-list, that I was not aware of and haven't signed in to - I was
surprised to see my e-mail address being displayed there - not masked, and in
a way that anyone can understand it.
I've asked that person to delete it, but, although that same person said
she(?) wouldn't do it any more, she was unable to delete the part of the
previous post where my e-mail address is shown...
And therefore, I would like to ask you:
First, if you could somehow change the fact that the e-mail addresses of
people who haven't signed in to any mailing-list, or agreed to disclose their
e-mail addresses, are shown to this being something that is either not
permitted or, if that's impossible, something that a person is, at least,
warned about.
Second, if you could - at least, just for this time - *please* delete the
reference to my e-mail address, in the post that I'm talking about - which is
this one: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-use-tor-trisquel#comment-26805 -
since the person who made that post tried to delete that part and was not
capable of, any more.
It's just that, if I knew that my e-mail address would be made public -
contrary to what is said when people sign in - I would have used some other
one instead. Since I'm a person who values my privacy much and I don't want
people to know my e-mail address.
Than you in advance.
Additions:
The first thing that I asked is something that I know might implicate some
hard work on the authors' part. And something that I was not expecting anyone
to do, just because I asked them to. But, I thought it wouldn't hurt just to
ask...
(I know this is mainly a volunteer project. And it's not that I don't value
volunteer work. (I've made *tons* of volunteer work in my life.) The
suggestion I made was just something that occurred to me. And, although I'm
still not sure if I'm going to adopt this particular distro or not, I'm
already thankful to the authors of it for the great work they've done in just
promoting Free Software itself.)
The second thing that I asked is something that seems, to me, to be pretty
simple to do. And all I'm asking is for the people responsible for this site
to *honour an agreement that was made*.
And, since I never got a response back, I would like to know what do the
people here, on the forum, have to say about all this...
