Re: making developer location from ldap public?

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:11:01PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> 
> i fully agree that generally an opt-in system is better, but in this
> case it is far more complicated to implement, and it's not really
> anything big that we are talking about here. if you want to hide where
> you are living from the public, you'll have a lot bigger problems than
> this entry that you can edit yourself. 
> 
> so the question should be more like "do you really have a problem if
> this field would be public"...

Some people are not comfortable with having that kind of information
easily available on the Internet.  The default must be opt-in, or not
at all.

						- Ted