Automated Birthday Greeings

Am I the only one who finds automated birthday greetings offensive and an mild abuse of the data I was asked to provide?

How is it different from automated spam? Less calories?

This is a Resource Zone issue, not an ODP/DMOZ one.

The birthday greetings are a feature of the vBulletin forum software that we use and entering your birthday was optional when you joined this forum.

Please amend your profile here to make changes.

Ha, I found this amusing