I only just realised this might be a problem. When mailing IsItOpen the email of the recipient appears in clear - this could be scraped by bots. This is different from WhatDoTheyKnow where there is an official FOI officer - here there is often only an assumed personal contact (i.e. it may not be the right person to send to). Sending public emails to arbitrary individuals might cause them public embarrassment, especially when they might simply be an arbitrary contact. For some of the organizations we are likely to write to the request itself may be seen as confrontational. These organizations may well not have an official contact of any sort and also where there is one it's of the form [email protected] which probably isn't going to get a reply. (In a sense when we get friendly addresses to write to the problem will have gone away).
I suspect that we should allow the email to be hidden (otherwise we are effectively publishing people's emails without permission). But I'm not an expert here. It may be useful to list the role of the person (e.g. Editor of Fooics). So far I have only sent emails to friendly recipients P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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