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SubjectRe: 463 kernel developers missing!
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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