RE: Listing personal information

["James Purchase" <jpurch@interlog.com>]

On the subject of making names/addresses/e-mail public or not....

I think that if you check back to when this all started, you will find that
one of the big things about this event was to see if there were any
similarities or differences in the way aquarists in different parts of the
world approached aquascaping. To do that, I think that we HAVE to identify
the CITY, STATE/PROVINCE and COUNTRY that an entry is from (and I guess that
if it's a small town, leave it to the viewer to check an atlas). (Also note
that I don't want street addresses published.)

Publishing e-mail addresses causes me pause however - a lot of people won't
want their e-mail addresses published either for fear of spam in their
in-boxes or unrelenting questions from strangers. Giving people the option
is probably the best route here.

Should anyone be shy enough to request that their name not be associated
with their entry (at least publicly), maybe we could even accomodate that
(i.e. "Name withheld by request") - but if their entry "places" and receives
a prize, I think that they HAVE to let us publish their name.

Anyone disagree? How do other contests handle this? And should this be
stated in the rules?

James Purchase
Toronto

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