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From: Peter Mazagran (no email)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 - 10:02:14 EDT
Hi John,
sorry for the Joe, I write my emails mostly at crazy times....
Yes, your intention might be honest and whatever, but if you ever
sailed you might know, what can break will break at the most
inconvenient moment. I am technician, when I was young I trusted
(almost)everything, until my little girl was born in summer 1985.
Remember that year? For the next 10 years we only bought old milk
powder, even more than 1000miles away cancer of the respiratory part
is more common nowadays. It was the year with the largest atomar power
plant disaster so far, Chernobyl, for sure, another one will come,
only nobody knows where and when.
What I want to say, you are forcingly gathering email addresses and
names, even if you are honest, shit happens.It is not necessary to
grant the service you are promising to collect those informations. Let
your customers choose, provide 2 ways...
I signed up, but will not continue as I will never give away anyones
email address who trusted me his/hers.
Fair winds in stormy days ;-)
Peter
--- In , John Noller <jcnoller at dot dot dot > wrote:
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> 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 <mazagran at dot dot dot > 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.
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> Peter
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