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Re: Pseudonymous commits

From
Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 25, 2010, 21:30 UTC
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<a038bef51003251430v35ab602v661f24888d637afa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
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> 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.

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Message 12 of 13 in “Pseudonymous commits”
  1. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  2. Theodore TsoMar 25, 2010
  3. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  4. Kris ShannonMar 25, 2010
  5. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  6. Avery PennarunMar 25, 2010
  7. Alex RiesenMar 25, 2010
  8. Santi BéjarMar 25, 2010
  9. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2010
  10. Mike.lifeguardMar 25, 2010
  11. Nicolas PitreMar 25, 2010
  12. Chris PackhamMar 25, 2010
  13. Jakub NarebskiMar 25, 2010

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