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really not having an issue with it, there’s no rule or regulation against
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=bhadaway@gmail.com
href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com">Bryan Hadaway</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 10, 2013 4:56 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] Hidden IP field in theme contact
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<DIV>1. To block known bad IPs (like Akismet), to build location stats on your
users (no different than GA, nothing unethical about it that I can tell at first
glance).<BR><BR></DIV>2. This would be better asked as why disclose that info?
I've never seen a form on any website EVER, do this. That includes .org and
.com. I've seen little snippets about why your email address is needed, but I've
absolutely NEVER seen in a form in any context EVER have a little "PS: We also
collect your IP for spam and banning purposes." And I sincerely doubt you or
anyone else on this list has ever seen that besides buried deep in the bowels of
the TOS or Privacy Policy fine print that doesn't really apply in this context
anyways.<BR><BR></DIV>3. Because the options are stored in the db, not sent to
someone's inbox. An inbox that perhaps would rather avoid being filled with
potentially thousands of spam emails or even if they went to the spam folder.
Also, I'm sure there are other serious professionals like myself who aren't
negligent enough to simply delete their spam emails without scanning them for
false positives first.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Hey, maybe this person really does somehow have malicious intent, though I
can't imagine how, but ultimately I'm protected the precedent, not the
individual use-case which I think most of us understand is the larger concern
when these issues come up.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>As to the last bit, that's programmer speak that goes right
over my head.<BR></DIV>
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