I think that if people are upset their name is up on a list clearly meant to shame them for being stupid, then contacting the author to say "ok I understand now, can you please remove us from that list" will definitely get them removed.
But I suspect if someone is the kind of person to email a tool author because of what an unrelated tool user is doing, they're probably going to be quite chuffed there's a tangible outcome they can point at and say "see, I fixed the issue"
