Re: Silly time stamps

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Apr 11, 2014, 15:23 UTC
Message-ID: <C689FD403BB74EB28156300F9353DE80@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <5347EBF5.102@ira.uka.de>

From: "Holger Hellmuth" <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
To: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Mahmoud Asshole" <a1209145@drdrb.net>; <git@vger.kernel.org>

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

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> 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.