So what you are saying here is someone does not have the right to exercise their own freedom to collect information from very public sources. No information contained in an email should be considered private. I am not advocating anyone harvesting the information this way, but a person in a free society does indeed have to right to do so if they choose to. Your permission to collect your information is implied when you send it to a public list. You are right in that the easiest most friendly way to do this database is to make it opt in. I was only stating that someone could gather the information and make a database that was not opt in if they wanted to. This is one reason at home I use an email address for lists like this that is used exclusively for lists and have other addresses for more private things.
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