On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:11:01PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:51:07PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote: > > I don't like opt-out. Better opt-in: > > > > 4. Invent a new field "public location info" and developers > > who care, could enter what they think is appropriate. > > > > I'm not sure, whether I would use the field. > > 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.
Generally speaking, you can't turn something that everybody thought it was private into a public thingy without asking them to confirm that they don't mind it. And, no, not every DD will read this thread so a field in the database saying "yes, make this public" is the _only_ way to go if you want to go that way. Regards Javier
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