a) When the Bush campaign said last week it was putting the names and info of donors online, it chose pdf format. b) Now someone has converted it to an easily-sortable and -searchable format. c) Which raises the question: Has anyone considered the privacy issue here -- donate $10 and your name, company name, city of residence, etc. go up on the web? >Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:37:30 -0400 (EDT) >From: Paul Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Bush donors decoded! > >It was very nice of <a href="http://www.gwbush.org/">George W Bush</a> >oops I meant <a href="http://www.georgebush.com/">this Bush</a> to put his >list of contributors on the Net. Unfortunately, <a >href="http://www.georgebush.com/FecList/downloads.htm ">it's in several >files in PDF</a> so that searching it and say taking it into a spreadsheet >is difficult. No More! <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Elliotte >Rusty Harold</a> has now made them into tab delimited files with other >formats on the way. <a >href="http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/bush/">http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ bush/</a> >Gentlemen, start your spreadsheets! > >Feel free to pass this on. > >========================================================================== > Paul Jones > "We must protect our precious bodily fluids!" General Jack D Ripper >http://MetaLab.unc.edu/pjones/ at the Site Formerly Known As SunSITE.unc.edu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 >=========================================================================== > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text: subscribe politech More information is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
