Re: How do we feel about conferences scraping addresses from the IETF?

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It appears that Alessandro Vesely  <vesely@xxxxxxx> said:
>On Sun 04/Jun/2023 03:41:07 +0200 Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 04-Jun-23 11:45, John R Levine wrote:
>>
>>> but we're in the US.  Do we have a policy on third parties using our data 
>>> for their own purposes?
>>
>> Is it realistic to even have such a policy? Do we think the serious 
>> spammers would either know or care?
>
>Did you and John mean "we in the US" or "we at IETF"?  I didn't even know there 
>are APIs to exfiltrate email addresses from the datatracker...

I don't think there are.  They probably scraped a registration like or the like.

I sure get a lot of spam offering me copies of the registration lists
for conferences, most of which I never heard of.

R's,
John




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