Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:55 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: 463 kernel developers missing! |
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On 30-07-08 21:47, Ray Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
>> So, if you were doing more than responding to Adrian's DCO worry here (which >> I do not share) the above is what I have against harvesting the addresses >> into a _way_ too public place/format. > > Er, what? Are you saying that a mailcap file inside a .gz or .bz2 or a > git repository is *more* public than a mailing list?
Inside a .gz of .bz2? But yes, definitely. Have you ever noticed exactly how many fully indexed linux source trees there are out there on the web? And how not any mailinglist archive does _not_ take the trouble to obscure addresses?
> or the already existing gitweb history of the main tree? > > I've noticed correlated (lagged) spikes in my spam volume to the > email address I use for this list whenever I post from it, so please > consider that you are perhaps being penny-wise and pound-foolish > here.
I'm not talking about spam. Spammers will get anything that's not private. As said, I'm talking about scale of publicness.
Rene.
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