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From: John Noller (no email)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 19:27:15 EDT
Peter,
To try and address some of your concerns:
Please review the Privacy link on any Sailtrac page. You control how your data and information is display. Sailtrac will not sell, disseminate contact information, or spam you or your friends. Period. The purpose of the "questions" is to determine your sailing or boating interests and few if any are mandatory and they are designed to help create the template for your personal, custom web pages and build your public profile. (Try a search from the Sailtrac Homepage and view a public postcard) and keep in mind you determine what is displayed there. Check out the "Help" to watch the tutorials for adding a trip, updating pages, and remote access features. The purpose of you adding the e-mail address and name of friends is so that if and when you travel offshore and do not have direct internet access and file a remote e-mail position report or make remote e-mail updates to your pages a system generated message can be sent to your contacts even when offshore and view
your position on your sites Google map and pull back weather information to display (if you choose to permit it) for that date and time and lat and long you filed. You are not obligated to add any friends to create an account and I recommend that until you get your comfort level up and play with our tools you don't bother and see for yourself that you are receiving e-mail spam. Give it a try, play with the site, and finish the registration process so you can see what the site permits and let me know what you think...it's not for everyone but not everyone is capable of programming their own webpages or developing and integrating maps, video, and remote access features. The choice is yours...
John Noller
Peter Mazagran <> wrote:
No Joe,
you are collecting much more than necessary "mandatory" informations.
You say your service is free, looks like as there is no payment
involved at present, but you are collecting email addresses and
corresponding names, and this looks damned like selling them. When I
came to this stage of registration I was already fed up b>cause all
the other mandatory and silly questions, I have no "most special
sailing experience", some other inputs also show up differently in the
overview, but this might be small program flaws.
But what is really annoying, all your arguments are for security and
then you are the one asking for private data. I see no reason to
supply you with my friends names and email addresses, if you want this
going (I would accept the ads as the service is free) I want to give
my friends an access code they might use or not. I suggest a
combination of my name encrypted plus a code I am free to select for
every friend, might even be his/her real nick.
Peter
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