Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 09:44:44 EST


On 7/29/08, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29-07-08 02:50, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > > Why do these all end in (none)?
> > > > Craig Hughes <craig@xxxxxxxx(none)>
> > > > Dave Neuer <dneuer@xxxxxxxx(none)>
> > > > David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxx(none)>
> > > > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxx(none)>
> > > > Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@xxxxxxxx(none)>
> > > > Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxx(none)>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Because rmk rewrites addresses to comply with privacy laws. Another
> good
> > > example of why this nonsense of yours is exactly that.
> > >
> > > I checked and am personally in there three times, once even without any
> > > valid email address listed. And any time there's anything other than my
> > > gmail address in some submission it at least recently means that someone
> > > _else_ took my from: address and stuck it on there and while I don't
> > > terribly mind that generally, I find it really annoying to see even
> those
> > > mistakes harvested into your hugely google-accessible resource.
> > >
> >
>
> [ .. ]
>
>
> > As for privacy, if you don't want your email address in a file like
> > this don't put it into a GPL'd public project.
> >
>
> Like I told you, I don't. Others do. And while that's not a huge issue in
> itself, you harvesting it into your nicely formatted google and spam-base
> MAKES it an issue. Just stop this crap. Be away.

Google got the list the second it was mailed on LKML. Why haven't you
told Google to remove the 1,054 pages that contain your email?

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=508&topic=13511

If you really want to spam kernel developers there is a much easier
way, just send the message to LKML.


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