I don't get it, if your email address is so private then why you share it with 3rd parties? Also, why would your email address be so private if the spam filters are so efficient nowadays, what's the harm in having a public email address? Please enlighten me.
> I don't get it, if your email address is so private then why you share it with 3rd parties?
How would you use it otherwise? My backyard is private, but I share it with a few 3rd parties. That doesn't mean i intent to share my backyard with the entire world.
There is an element of trust with particular 3rd parties that is being violated. Why is that so hard to understand?
So what is the address of my backyard? Besides being an inane argument, how do you know it is not private?
Unless you run your own mail server, someone knows your email address, so are you trying to define that as not private? Obviously, we are using fuzzy terms about private/public when there is a huge gradient of privacy.
It gets a bit awkward when you comment on racist/anti-immigration websites with your (at least semi public) email while you represent a far right party that officially has a zero tolerance on racism.
The party has its roots in the skinhead/neo-nazi organizations and they have been trying to shake that image problem for quite some time now. To be fair, putting on suits has helped them.
Yeah well, the person has himself to blame. Either be identifiable or anonymous. Don't use private email and expect to be untraceable. That's just mad.
At least some of the emails weren't even private. I saw an example of one of the politicians who got their identity 'leaked'. The email she used for the Disqus comments was listed on her official municipality contact page.
Why share it with 3rd parties? Because that's the typical method of creating an account and managing it in case you forget your password and they will typically claim that they aren't going to share it with anyone and the cost of finding an anonymous mail that they will accept is quite a bit of time. (I typically do not use my email to sign up for anything.)
Why not public? I guess it's fine if everyone knows it assuming a perfect spam filter (they aren't perfect btw) but I don't want it to be public knowledge what websites I use and what I say on those sites. Non-sinster example; I could be publicly discussing a sexual encounter and just not want the whole world to know (non-psuedonymously) that I did that.
you are absolutely right, we have public email addresses, and also the spam filters. But then still, information needs to be protected. There are people who dont want their email addresses public or in some list which is being sold over and over again to marketing companies which then flood your inbox with spams. It is irritating at times even if there's spam filters.
