[BVARC] Our email list is publicly available?!?!?!?!?

Anthony Duke III duke7221 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 19:36:35 CST 2021


In my opinion, it’s not that our information is publicly available, it’s
how easy it is to locate with a quick and simple Google search. In your
example, someone from the general public would have to know you have a HAM
license to go digging for your personal information. Thus, it is not
readily available to the general public.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:22 PM D. Howard Bingham via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org>
wrote:

> The use of* INDIVIDUAL PASSWORDS should be required to access MEMBERSHIP
> LIST**S*.
>
> If you use your ARRL address, be aware that REPLIES to messages using the
> ARRL address, will be from YOUR ISP address (NOT ARRL>)
>
> Likewise, all that's needed to access your street or mailing address, is
> to access the FCC Database & lookup your FCC assigned CALL SIGN,
>
> everything that's on the LICENSE APPLICATION IS PUBLIC RECORD.
>
> If you don't want your street address and phone numbers to show up on a
> highway billboard, BE AWARE IF YOU PUT IT IN YOUR LICENSE
> APPLICATION, it's there for everyone to see.
>
> *Perhaps a BVARC member who is a LAWYER can explain LIABILITY ISSUES.!*
>
> D. Howard Bingham
>
> ke5apj  😷
>
> --
> On 2/3/2021 7:41 AM, Mike Hardwick via BVARC wrote:
>
> I will be checking on this today.
>
> Mike Hardwick
> President
> BVARC
>
> On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 07:39:10 AM CST, John Mechura via BVARC
> <bvarc at bvarc.org> <bvarc at bvarc.org> wrote:
>
>
> You may also go to the bvarc website and click on the membership roster
> and scroll around for your info.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 7:16 AM William Elliott via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org>
> wrote:
>
> I'm a month into the club and my info popped up too.  I'd rather that not
> be publicly posted.
>
> -K15MKV
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:28 AM Kori Rahman via BVARC <bvarc at bvarc.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> So I just did a Google search of my call sign (which I will not be stating
> again) and the VERY FIRST thing that came up was my personal email to the
> club list. I was... kinda shocked and surprised. I was under the impression
> these emails were for club members ONLY. Apparently this email list is
> posted to the public and I'm concerned about that. I have personal
> information in my signature (name, phone number etc. which may be used to
> send me spam calls) that could easily be parsed by an algorithm... This
> seems like a major security issue to me and should be fixed. I have to
> wonder who is sending these emails to this website??? If the club is doing
> this they should inform us that anything we say on this list is not a
> private email but a public statement to all of the internet and everyone on
> the planet.
>
> I would appreciate some feedback on this and how this email I sent to the
> club was posted publicly on the internet for all the world to see.... Maybe
> this is the intent of the club, but I will certainly think twice about
> sending anything out now and censoring my email signature. This must be
> laid out clearly to all new members.
>
> One of many offending post:
>   https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/msg09908.html
>
> The use of the word "Private" is extensive in this page I was sent with my
> welcome to the list:
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
>
> Look.... I'm not SUPER diligent about reading absolutely everything I get,
> but this seems like an extremely important thing to tell folks... I've been
> a member for about 2 months so maybe this has been brought up before. I
> just feel there needs to be more transparency if this is how it is.
>
> - My call is in the offending link
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Thank you,

Anthony Duke III
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