From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Susanne Ebrecht <miracee(at)web(dot)de> |
Cc: | Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: criticism about hosting download packages |
Date: | 2011-02-23 18:15:40 |
Message-ID: | 1298484941.14800.108.camel@jd-desktop |
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On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 12:01 +0100, Susanne Ebrecht wrote:
> On 22.02.2011 20:53, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Right but that isn't our concern. EDB should and can do whatever they
> > wish with that download page. It is up to the community to decide
> > whether or not how they handle it is reasonable.
>
> As long as it is legal.
>
> Fishing for addresses is illegal in most European countries.
There is no fishing going on here.
>
> The way EDB tries it might not be illegal - but it is hard at the limit
> of being illegal.
Susanne this is pretty out there. They aren't fishing for addresses.
They don't make you fill out the form. The download starts on its own
without putting in a single character of information. The page even
states that the download will begin on its own and that if it doesn't
you can click the link.
JD
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