Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

2017-03-05 Thread Leonid Isaev
Isn't Arch BBS already providing list of usernames? In general, though, I'd say follow the principle of least effort. Why just not publish the list of usernames and that's all? This way, new users can easily grep for them and don't need scrapers, and "researchers" can have fun... On Mon, Mar 06,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

2017-03-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Giving away any data is bad, period. I hate this fashion that nowadays every "expert" holding a share is granted access to data, that even the NSA isn't getting that easy. Starting to give away such data to "researchers" is evil, let alone that all that "serious" statistics are just bullshit. No ex

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)

2017-03-05 Thread Mauro Santos via arch-general
On 05-03-2017 13:35, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Hi, > > I was recently contacted by a Polish researcher asking for a list of AUR > account names. I did not expect this to be controversial but a couple of > Trusted Users raised concerns on IRC, so I decided to move this to the > public mailing list a