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From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: "Mike.lifeguard" <mike.lifeguard@gmail.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pseudonymous commits
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:30:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a038bef51003251430v35ab602v661f24888d637afa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003251605560.694@xanadu.home>

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
>
>> In the end, I managed to convince them they wouldn't be spammed (hope
>> I'm right), and I used their real emails. Nonetheless, I appreciate the
>> help.
>
> Oh, if your project is public and accessible through gitweb then
> spammers will certainly scan it and pick up their email addresses.
> Maybe some of them might even go as far as cloning Git repositories just
> for that purpose.  Only local spam filtering may help in that case.
>

Sounds like it'd be a really good option to have in gitweb to
obfuscate email addresses a-la gmane and practically every other web
based mailing list/news reader. Could be fairly low hanging fruit with
a decent payoff (not that I'm volunteering). Can't do much about clone
and spam.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-25 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25  3:57 Pseudonymous commits Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-25  4:39 ` Theodore Tso
2010-03-25  4:41   ` Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-25  4:54     ` Kris Shannon
2010-03-25  5:00       ` Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-25  5:14         ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-25  9:18         ` Alex Riesen
2010-03-25 11:05         ` Santi Béjar
2010-03-25 19:02     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-25 19:26       ` Mike.lifeguard
2010-03-25 20:14         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-03-25 21:30           ` Chris Packham [this message]
2010-03-25 23:57       ` Jakub Narebski

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