Re: Un-obfuscated email address listings

2005-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:17:52PM +0100, J. Grant wrote: > The solution to multiple copies of the email address would be to mangle > it upon receipt of the bug, processing that input if you like, before it > is copied and multiplied. That would be dreadful. This is a fundamentally e-mail-based sy

Re: Un-obfuscated email address listings

2005-04-17 Thread J. Grant
Hi MJ Ray, The solution to multiple copies of the email address would be to mangle it upon receipt of the bug, processing that input if you like, before it is copied and multiplied. Is debbugs actively being developed and extended? Do you think they would be interested to implement email address

Re: Un-obfuscated email address listings

2005-04-12 Thread MJ Ray
The debian bug reports are republished in several other places. It seems unlikely that mangling the email address would make a significant difference. Possibly because of that, no-one has implemented address manging, as far as I can tell. The software is called debbugs and there is a debian package

Un-obfuscated email address listings

2005-04-12 Thread J. Grant
Hello, I noticed that my email address was being listed un-obfuscated on a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=liblivemedia-dev I wonder if there is a reason not to mangle the email address a little to avoid auto-scan spam bots collecting email addresses? email address