Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Of course debian-devel is not adequate notification. But that's a separate question from whether opt-in is mandatory. As yet, however, I haven't seen any good reason for opening the information anyway. My address is on my public web page; but many peoples' is not.
