Wlauzon - 2:21 am on Jun 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

..Do you have a count of how many mails Tasatullah Fahrouk sent out from Afghanistan?

No :(

But apparently not much, he does not even show up on our link tracking...

The funny thing is, I just checked the actual date I made that page, and it has said basically the same thing since 1999, yet we have never gotten a single comment on it.

Which leads me to believe that this tempest is like so many others that make the news - more agenda pushing than of any real concern about privacy.

..its about businesses making sure they are handling private data properly...

And that is where I think most of the "noisemakers" entirely miss the point. You can post just about anything you want, but unless you are actually doing something to protect privacy, it is all meaningless drivel.

..Any other functional hyperlink that is so displayed that a reasonable person would notice it...

Then we get into "what is reasonable". On our website we have our email address in about 4 to 6 places on almost every page, yet we have people call us - at the number listed on the website - asking what our email address is.

[edited by: Wlauzon at 2:27 am (utc) on June 1, 2008]