Our club have a full membership list with access restricted to the committee. If you need to know contact details, call the membership secretary. However, we have been (and still are) under pressure to release a full list but with abbreviated details. I spoke with the Office of the Information Commissioner and was told:
1. Do not give anyone the membership list at the moment.
2. Why? because we may have not made members aware that their information may be shared with other members.
3. If we have this authority from each member, then it is OK to share the information.
4. If we do not have permission, then send an email asking for permission to share the information and explain why we are making this request.
5. Any distribution of data should be made securely i.e. to to valid email address in a non-editable format (such as pdf) or a hard copy.
We do of course follow the usual data protection procedures as far as holding all members info securely.
As has been said above, we are almost all of us on the internet. One of our members refuses to have his details on the list but ignores the fact that if you Google him, there's more info available than we hold for the public to access.
We had a lively debate on this at our recent AGM -the committee now have to go away and get the necessary authorities from the members.,
In my view, being able to contact other members benefits both the club - greater interaction between members outside of meetings and the member - not such a solitary past-time