
Eric Morton RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Marathon Voter Season 9 aka Epic Meepo |

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Sean:
Silly question, I know, but since they (Matthew and Kevin) are registered with Paizo, and since giving the email address is part of the identification/signing-in process, won't the PostMonster General know what their email addresses are?
Yep. Any board admin can tell you in about two seconds.
Sean, I'll be sending you an e-mail in about four seconds.

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Vic Wertz wrote:LOL, in the UK that would be illegal under the data protection act!Yep. Any board admin can tell you in about two seconds.
Sean, I'll be sending you an e-mail in about four seconds.
I tell ya, after skimming that act, all I have to say is that I thought American legalese was obtuse, but man, we got nothing on you guys.
I'm not a lawyer (or a barrister or solicitor either), but I did happen across a (to my mind) rather bizarre exception in the act that would maybe even make it ok in the UK:
"Personal data which are processed only for the special purposes are exempt from any provision to which this subsection relates if... the processing is undertaken with a view to the publication by any person of any journalistic, literary or artistic material..."
(I'm probably wrong that it would be legally relevant, but I just thought it was amusing that a privacy regulation has a clause about art.)

Sean K Reynolds Contributor |

I tell ya, after skimming that act, all I have to say is that I thought American legalese was obtuse, but man, we got nothing on you guys.
It's because they have to write their laws with a cockney accent, and write them phonetically. Which means lots of guv'na, cheerio, pip pip, wot wot, blimey, bleedin, and so on. Increases the word count by about 50% and requires you to read them out loud to actually understand what it's saying.

Charles Evans 25 |
Vic Wertz wrote:It's because they have to write their laws with a cockney accent, and write them phonetically. Which means lots of guv'na, cheerio, pip pip, wot wot, blimey, bleedin, and so on. Increases the word count by about 50% and requires you to read them out loud to actually understand what it's saying.
I tell ya, after skimming that act, all I have to say is that I thought American legalese was obtuse, but man, we got nothing on you guys.
Hurray! We may be rubbish at almost everything else in Britain, but the spirit of Magna Carta is still going strong.