Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756283AbYG3HZr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:25:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751529AbYG3HZj (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:25:39 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:39232 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751075AbYG3HZi (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:25:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:24:48 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Rene Herman Cc: Jon Smirl , Paul Mundt , James Morris , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Simon Arlott , lkml Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing! Message-ID: <20080730072448.GB1564@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> References: <9e4733910807281200m25f7f16bwa6678694bb25a61@mail.gmail.com> <20080728202236.GN9378@mit.edu> <20080728204624.GA11581@redhat.com> <20080728141414.d7e5def2.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080728234131.GD28055@linux-sh.org> <9e4733910807281714h2918fcbey77c8d1cea902a3fd@mail.gmail.com> <488E644D.7000507@keyaccess.nl> <9e4733910807281750p52cf150lacd0e237732046e7@mail.gmail.com> <488EF377.5080603@keyaccess.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488EF377.5080603@keyaccess.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2203 Lines: 55 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 >>>> Dave Neuer >>>> David Brownell >>>> David Woodhouse >>>> Deepak Saxena >>>> Enrico Scholz >>>> >>> 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/