From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: Silly time stamps Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:23:17 +0100 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: References: <5347CD22.9010003@alum.mit.edu> <5347EBF5.102@ira.uka.de> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Mahmoud Asshole" , To: "Holger Hellmuth" , "Michael Haggerty" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 17:23:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYdIf-0005fK-CX for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:23:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757784AbaDKPXS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:23:18 -0400 Received: from out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.243]:15015 "EHLO out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757522AbaDKPXO (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:23:14 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Al8XALYHSFNZ8Y6Q/2dsb2JhbABPCg6CeDuJIrt5BQECAQGBGhd0giAFAQEBAQIBCAEBLh4BASEFBgIDBQIBAxUDCSUUAQQaBgcXBgESCAIBAgMBh2MMr06dHI4KBgsBUIMrgRQEiSOGJopMkQ2CcUE8gTU X-IPAS-Result: Al8XALYHSFNZ8Y6Q/2dsb2JhbABPCg6CeDuJIrt5BQECAQGBGhd0giAFAQEBAQIBCAEBLh4BASEFBgIDBQIBAxUDCSUUAQQaBgcXBgESCAIBAgMBh2MMr06dHI4KBgsBUIMrgRQEiSOGJopMkQ2CcUE8gTU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,842,1389744000"; d="scan'208";a="105097605" Received: from host-89-241-142-144.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([89.241.142.144]) by out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net with SMTP; 11 Apr 2014 16:23:11 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "Holger Hellmuth" To: "Michael Haggerty" Cc: "Mahmoud Asshole" ; If you look at "Mahmoud's" email address, it is from http://10minutemail.com/ 'the best disposable e-mail service.'. So it looks like s/he knew what they were doing when venting their spleen. It would have been nicer to know the underlying source of their frustration, rather than them going off the rails. Philip > Am 11.04.2014 13:08, schrieb Michael Haggerty: >> On 04/09/2014 10:50 PM, Mahmoud Asshole wrote: >>> [...] >> >> Please conduct your discussions here in a civil tone. It is both >> more >> pleasant for all involved and also more likely to elicit a response. >> I >> hardly think that the "waste" of 12 bytes in every commit is an act >> of >> stupidity so inexcusable that it would deserve your bile, even *if* >> one >> were to agree that this information is useless (which I personally >> don't >> think). > > I would guess he is more concerned about the unnecessary disclosure of > information that could be used to track or (together with other data) > identify you. > > Since the reasons to include it seem to be specifically to know more > about the comitter this seems to me the typical conflict between > privacy and security.