Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758092AbYG3T7S (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:59:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753573AbYG3T7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:59:05 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:34266 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754125AbYG3T7E (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:59:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4890C877.3080609@keyaccess.nl> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:55 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Lee CC: Linus Torvalds , Adrian Bunk , Stefan Richter , Jon Smirl , Paul Mundt , James Morris , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Simon Arlott , lkml Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing! References: <9e4733910807281750p52cf150lacd0e237732046e7@mail.gmail.com> <488EF377.5080603@keyaccess.nl> <20080730072448.GB1564@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <4890284E.3050806@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080730124650.GB19966@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <4890646D.3060000@keyaccess.nl> <20080730153247.GA21597@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <4890C3D0.6070306@keyaccess.nl> <2c0942db0807301247o429052c8y943c997123a03642@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0807301247o429052c8y943c997123a03642@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1339 Lines: 33 On 30-07-08 21:47, Ray Lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Rene Herman 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. -- 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/