Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:39:51PM +0200, Rene Herman 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.

Whether Jon's patch is a good idea one might discuss, but as soon as 
someone puts an email address into a kernel commit Google will anyway 
find it:

The ChangeLog-* files at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ 
also contain all addresses in Jon's list, and Google harvests them.
The same goes for mailing list archives of git-commits-head.

> Rene.

cu
Adrian

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