From: Philip Oakley Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:23:17 GMT Subject: Re: Silly time stamps Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5347EBF5.102@ira.uka.de> 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.