[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Georg Brandl added the comment: Your interpretation was correct indeed. It's an email address we're talking about here, which is necessarily a public bit of information, not a private one like a Social Security or credit card number. Anyway, the repo is now private, so nobody will be able to

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Skip Montanaro added the comment: I interpreted "not a big deal" to mean that having addresses exposed was not a big deal. Too many pronouns perhaps. -- status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Ok, the repo is now private. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> pending ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Georg Brandl added the comment: As I said, I'm not opposed to make the repo private. I don't need to convince anyone. You sound like you're trying to change my opinion here. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Skip Montanaro added the comment: Tom Pinckney thinks it's a big deal. I suspect he might be interested to know why you think it's not. We are entitled to our own opinions about privacy, but the request at hand concerns another person's privacy. He's the one you need to convince. --

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Georg Brandl added the comment: Sure, the repo can go private if deemed necessary. I still think this is not a big deal anyway. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The question is not "why", it is "how". This file is part of the scripts used to migrate from svn to hg. These files themselves were maintained in an hg repository (it could have been an svn repository), for obvious practical reasons. And that repository was

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Why should we have this file served on the web itself? Cannot it be on server outside of www ( or any directory which is getting served). I would vote for this. -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tracker

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I've asked the website team to see if they can adjust the robots.txt > file Is there a problem with the robots.txt? It already disallows all robots. If Google ignores the robots.txt, then someone should complain to Google. -- nosy: +georg.brandl, pit

[issue11575] addresses.txt file leaks into search engines

New submission from Skip Montanaro : The python.org postmaster received this email today: From: Tom Pinckney To: postmas...@python.org Subject: public email addresses Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:03:21 -0400 X-Spambayes-Classification: ham; 0.13 Kind of sucks that this file 1