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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 (hop=
e
>> 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 j=
ust
> for that purpose. =C2=A0Only local spam filtering may help in that ca=
se.
>

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.