Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:40:52 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: bkbits - "@" question |
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--Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote (on Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:21:31 +0100):
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:14:52PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: >> > * Larry McVoy asked: >> > The web pages on bkbits.net contain email addresses. This is >> > probably about a 4 year too late question but would it help reduce >> > spam if we did something like s/@/ (at) / for all those addresses? >> > >> > * Christoph Hellwig answered: >> > No. >> >> Why not, please? > > Because spambots parse all this replacements anyway, and it makes cut & pasting > mail addresses if you want to reply to a change much easier.
Besides which, 99.99% of people who's name appears in the changelogs have presumably posted to linux-kernel anyway, and are thus in need of spam prophylactics whatever you do. So it won't help ...
M.
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