FC: Bush campaign donors now available in spreadsheet format

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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 <pjones () metalab unc edu>
> X-Sender: pjones () titan oit unc edu
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> 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:elharo () metalab unc edu"> 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.
>
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