linux-kernel - Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

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Message-ID: <4890C877.3080609@keyaccess.nl>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:55 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@...il.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

On 30-07-08 21:47, Ray Lee wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl> wrote:

>> So, if you were doing more than responding to Adrian's DCO worry here (which
>> I do not share) the above is what I have against harvesting the addresses
>> into a _way_ too public place/format.
> 
> Er, what? Are you saying that a mailcap file inside a .gz or .bz2 or a
> git repository is *more* public than a mailing list?

Inside a .gz of .bz2? But yes, definitely. Have you ever noticed exactly 
how many fully indexed linux source trees there are out there on the 
web? And how not any mailinglist archive does _not_ take the trouble to 
obscure addresses?

> or the already existing gitweb history of the main tree?
> 
> I've noticed correlated (lagged) spikes in my spam volume to the
> email address I use for this list whenever I post from it, so please 
> consider that you are perhaps being penny-wise and pound-foolish
> here.

I'm not talking about spam. Spammers will get anything that's not 
private. As said, I'm talking about scale of publicness.

Rene.

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