Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:40:52 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bkbits - "@" question
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--Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote (on Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:21:31 +0100):

> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:14:52PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> > * Larry McVoy asked:
>> > The web pages on bkbits.net contain email addresses.  This is
>> > probably about a 4 year too late question but would it help reduce
>> > spam if we did something like  s/@/ (at) / for all those addresses?
>> > 
>> > * Christoph Hellwig answered:
>> > No.
>> 
>> Why not, please?
> 
> Because spambots parse all this replacements anyway, and it makes cut & pasting
> mail addresses if you want to reply to a change much easier.

Besides which, 99.99% of people who's name appears in the changelogs
have presumably posted to linux-kernel anyway, and are thus in need
of spam prophylactics whatever you do. So it won't help ...

M.

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