[theme-reviewers] Hidden IP field in theme contact form

[Srikanth Koneru]

Agree with James


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 6:18 PM, james <james at wpninjas.com> wrote:

> **
> My two cents? I don't care what the reasons are for tracking IP or any
> other data. You are in my WordPress admin. You are adding things into my
> Control Panel that I use to administer my website. I am the supreme king in
> there and anything you do in my admin should be fully disclosed, period.
> Every other argument is pointless to me until that is settled. My admin, my
> rights. Add it, don't add it, but tell me what you are doing when you come
> into my house. :)
>
> James Laws
> wpninjas.com
> twitter.com/jameslaws
>
>
> ---- On Sat, 11 May 2013 07:14:15 -0500 *Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com
> >* wrote ----
>
> And the fact that webservers collect ip addresses as well. (apache,
> litespeed etc)
>
> On 5/11/13, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, really not having an issue with it, there’s no rule or regulation
> > against sending the IP hidden or otherwise. Mail’s generally have the
> > originators IP in them to begin with, this is just making sure the IP of
> the
> > ‘real’ originator since it will be coming from the users server’s
> location
> > in the headers of the mail.
> > Just to point out that regular vanilla WordPress collects IP’s of
> comments
> > without notifying.
> > From: Bryan Hadaway
> > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:56 PM
> > To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> > Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Hidden IP field in theme contact form
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > As to the last bit, that's programmer speak that goes right over my head.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > _______________________________________________
> > theme-reviewers mailing list
> > theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> > http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> theme-reviewers mailing list
> theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/attachments/20130511/af1b09ee/attachment.html>