tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:/discussions/suggestions/23-consideration-of-e-mail-address-privacyRubyGems.org: Discussion 2011-04-07T20:59:35Ztag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/40161912010-11-29T06:07:22Z2010-11-29T06:08:55Zconsideration of e-mail address privacy<div><p>First, I want to say Thank You to every staffs<br>
for providing the wonderful rubygems.org. :-)</p>
<p>I registered to rubygem.org before a few weeks, and now I
noticed that my e-mail address is not hidden on my profile page.
(Even I am not logged in.)</p>
<p>I thought that my e-mail address will not be public at the
registration time.</p>
<p>I suggests either of these:</p>
<ul>
<li>Noting "Your e-mail address will be public" on the Sign-up
form.</li>
<li>Adding "Keep my e-mail address private" checkbox to Sign-up
& profile edit form.</li>
</ul>
<p>And also, I suggest encrypting e-mail address on profile page
with JavaScript for protection from SPAM robots.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>-- Kaoru Kobo<br>
<a href=
"http://rubygems.org/profiles/kaorukobo">http://rubygems.org/profiles/kaorukobo</a></p>
<p>keywords: e-mail address mail address hide hidden private public
published profile spam<br></p></div>Kaoru Kobotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/40161912010-11-29T14:30:16Z2010-11-29T14:30:16Zconsideration of e-mail address privacy<div><p>Agreed, this concern has been discussed already and I'm planning
on implementing it soon.</p></div>Nick Quarantotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/40161912010-11-30T00:53:01Z2010-11-30T00:53:03Zconsideration of e-mail address privacy<div><p>Nick</p>
<p>Thanks! :-)</p></div>Kaoru Kobotag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/40161912010-12-01T23:34:23Z2010-12-01T23:34:24Zconsideration of e-mail address privacy<div><p>While you're at it, can you please fix the fact that, without
typing in a password, I can change my email address, and get
<em>LOCKED OUT OF MY ACCOUNT</em> if I set it to something bogus,
such as <a href="mailto:foo@example.com">foo@example.com</a>?</p>
<p>I was pissed off you guys were publicly displaying my email
address, so I changed it to <a href=
"mailto:foo@example.com">foo@example.com</a> and hit update.
Without asking me or anything else, I got locked out of my account
and currently have absolutely NO way of getting my account
back.</p>
<p>Brilliant policy, guys. Really, really brilliant.</p></div>While you're at it...tag:help.rubygems.org,2010-01-19:Comment/40161912010-12-18T16:06:18Z2010-12-18T16:06:18Zconsideration of e-mail address privacy<div><p>I lost this one in the mix, if you have a real support issue
please open up a new one and we'll handle it. This is an open
source service run by volunteers, if you have problems you can help
fix them...that's the whole point :)</p></div>Nick Quaranto