Originally Posted by
pmocek
To take this off the Internet and into meatspace, imagine that you contacted the public relations department for some federal government agency, and that the letter you received in response contained information that you felt would be valuable to others. Were you to photocopy that letter and tack copies on local community bulletin boards, would you feel the need to white out contact information on the letterhead used by the TSA staff when they responded to your inquiry?
Maybe. There is also a notable difference when it comes to posting info online - particularly email addresses - as there are automated systems that harvest those addresses and use them nefariously. Such a parallel doesn't exist in the offline world. But this is a whole different discussion than the topic at hand.