On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 18:12 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Daniel Berlin > >Sent: 31 May 2005 18:00 > > > On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:52 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> ----Original Message---- > >>> From: Russ Allbery > >>> Sent: 31 May 2005 04:51 > > >>> There are many on-line newspapers that I refuse to read articles from, > >>> for example, because I don't want to create an account. That creates a > >>> piece of authorization out there that I have to record a password for > >>> and that I'm to some degree responsible for. > > >> Whenever I come across one of those interfaces, I test it to see if > >> it'll let me create an account called 'guest' with password 'guest'. (I > >> believe in keeping the old net.traditions alive!) If it wants an email > >> address, I use '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > > > And then if we need more info for your bug report, and can't reach you, > > we'll simply close it. > > Oh, really?
> At precisely *which* on-line newspaper site do you expect to find me > entering gcc bug reports? I thought you were generalizing "those interfaces" to include bugzilla, which was the original topic of discussion :) > I had an even stupider version of this whole debate a little while ago on > IIRC the binutils mailing list, where someone refused to enter a bug report > into bugzilla because it was going to set a cookie and they thought that it > was somehow sinister. It's completely sinister. We store all your info in there including YOUR QUERY SORT ORDER! :)
