Friday, January 09, 2004

Looks like a good place for spammers to harvest email addresses

When an internet site promises that if you send them a message, they will not publish your phone number, address or email address on the web, you expect to be able to hold them to that standard. But what if it's too hard? What if it's part of the Department of Treasury?
The unusually large number of comments received on Notice No. 4 has made it difficult to remove all street addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses from the comments for posting on our Internet Web site in a timely manner.

Well, the agency passes a federal regulation stating that anyone who submitted their contact information has a limited amount of time to communicate that they don't want it published, and if they don't respond, then it will be. Problem solved.