From: Chris Packham Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:30:27 GMT Subject: Re: Pseudonymous commits Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Nicolas Pitre 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.