[anextio]

Wow. This thing is totally inappropriate and extremely creepy in all contexts. Out of "sheer curiosity"? Jeepers.

I hope this gets removed.

Great message to send to the women in the tech industry: come join our community and we'll single you out in a git repository like a museum exhibit. Even better, the whole thing is a perl script, so anyone can programmatically do whatever they want with your personal information! It's all for curiosity's sake!

[Tichy]

If you are on GitHub (also as a male), you can be singled out in a lot of ways. There is an app that ranks developers by city, depending on their productivity, popularity, connectedness, whatever. Nobody complained - you know that if you go on GitHub, your data is public.

[andyzweb]

I don't think there's any bad intention here. I think this is part of a larger meme in the Perl community: http://search.cpan.org/search?m=all&q=Acme%3A%3ACPANAuth...