Re: [108attendees] Meetecho participant pics

Whether people opt to have a Gravatar or not is about as relevant to the
IETF as if you drink Non-fat, 1%, 2%, 3%, Half-Half, for Full Cream milk or
if you are against people drinking milk all together. Or better yet, if the
toilet paper roll should roll forward or backward.  Gravatar has been
around for a very long time, since early 2007. If you are just finding out
about it now, then, well, sorry.  But it has been around for a long time. A
lot of services and sites on the internet use it, it is a great idea. If
you do not want one, then do not get one. Simple. But it is nice to have a
single place to update your "avatar" and have it work in a lot of places.

We should really have a list called bike-shed@ietf.org so all of these
discussions and debates can be moved there.

Bret

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:37 PM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@labs.htt-consult.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 7/27/20 4:36 PM, John Levine wrote:
> > In article <0bca5ca1-1f1e-f13c-f64b-7f9787be6271@labs.htt-consult.com>
> you write:
> >> Exactly my concern.
> >>
> >> I don't HAVE a Wordpress account; why do I need one?
> > A few seconds of clicking reveals that Gravatar is run by Automattic
> > which is better known as Wordpress.com. That's why you need a
> > Wordpress account, it *is* Wordpress.
> I am not aware of any business reason for me to get a Wordpress account.
>
> Ergo I will not have a gravatar.
>
> Simple.
>
> Others will undoubtedly have a different calculus.
>
> >
> > They have a detailed privacy policy here:
> >
> > https://automattic.com/privacy/
> >
> > It's pretty reasonable, no sale of info to third parties, the most
> > evil thing they do is use your profile info to target ads on their
> > site, which doesn't apply to Gravatar since it's not providing ads,
> > just mapping hashes of addresses to pictures. I've had my Gravatar set
> > up for ages including for some addresses that only Wordpress knows and
> > I've never gotten any unexpected spam to those addresses.
> >
> > I suspect it wouldn't be terribly hard to use the Datatracker pix instead
> > but I'd put it pretty low on the list of things to do.
> >
> > R's,
> > John
> >
>
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