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I think in many circumstances, this sort of disclosure is covered by a > site's privacy policy (or it should be). > > About as many people read these as read software licenses. A lot of people who complain about scamware don't notice that the software license often explains that you agree to have monitoring software installed on your machine that brings you ads. Strikes me as roughly analogous to publicly posting the caller ID of > everyone who calls you. > > It's not a big risk to your visitors. It's not very polite. It's > probably not very useful. > > Unless you've got a good reason to do it... why bother? > I see an opportunity for websites to offer subscription services that would suppress such info for a modest fee. Even people who are not inclined to view naughty info resources could probably be convinced to cough up some dough -- I can imagine services catering to employers who want an easy way to monitor who is goofing off on the job without coordinating with network admins... kyle