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Originally Posted by Gunter
The posting of full names at first without asking the members befrorehand shows how tightly and arbitrary control is held.
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Never mind doing so was contrary to the Canadian online privacy act.
Taking a membership list like that and arbitrarily creating accounts, without having it be opt-in, especially with the names (full or otherwise), is problematic.
It's one thing to transfer accounts from one forum software to another, keeping the same account names, etc., as that can be considered software upgrades and keeps the opt-in and terms of service agreements in place. Arbitrarily renaming the accounts to different, never mind real names, even with abbreviated real names, and creating new accounts from a membership list, voids and even bypasses that agreement and violates the privacy act.
But what do I know... I just do this for a living...