Thanks for everyones input all concerns are being address, No changes to the user database will be made from this point forward and Address collection will be made optional I will send out a notice to everyone when the changes are available on sourceforge.
<br><br>Nebadon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Aldon Hynes</b> <<a href="mailto:Aldon.Hynes@orient-lodge.com">Aldon.Hynes@orient-lodge.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">On the
otherhand, I think it may be useful to have those as optional fields available
to grid operators. If I'm running a small private grid in the United
States, I can easily see wanting that information without getting into issues
with EU directives.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">My two
cents.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Aldon</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span class="q">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:opensim-dev-bounces@lists.berlios.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">opensim-dev-bounces@lists.berlios.de</a>
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Wright<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:20 AM<br><b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br></span><span class="q"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Opensim-dev] Changes to
users table used by the UserServer<br><br></span></font></div><div><span class="e" id="q_115d3fc237442345_4">I agree with Tleiades,
adding such fields (and storing the data in them) would be a complex thing due
to data protection/privacy laws
(like:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_95/46/EC_on_the_protection_of_personal_data" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_95/46/EC_on_the_protection_of_personal_data
</a>).<br><br><br><br><b><i>Tleiades
Hax <<a href="mailto:tleiades@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tleiades@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">Are
we ready to store this information in our user database?<br><br>This
information links a user to real life person, and as such starts to
interract with the various data protection acts across the globe. Especially
EU is a messy tangle I think. <br><br>/tleiades<br><br>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>The
eight fields defined in an 'update_users.sql' are
:<br><br>realname1<br>realname2<br>address1<br>zip1<br>city1<br>country1<br>emailaddress
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