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Was it really necessary to also publish their email addresses? -- Edit: I know the addresses appear in the Git repo. But they are not accessible to web crawle
by infodroid 10y ago
Was it really necessary to also publish their email addresses?
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Edit: I know the addresses appear in the Git repo. But they are not accessible to web crawlers over HTTP. Most code hosting services require a login to see them as a spam control measure. Which is also why I think they should be obfuscated at least.
- andrewguenther 10y agoI mean, they're right there in the git log
- Uberphallus 10y agoPublish? It's public already.
- rnhmjoj 10y agoSpammers are already using emails from git repositories, especially from Github.
- chris_7 10y agoFor whom is spam actually a problem? Filters are absurdly good.
- infodroid 10y agoIt can be additional work for people self-hosting their mail. But I base that on my own experience many years out of date.
- noobermin 10y agoDepends on the email service. Colleagues of mine who work at military research lab have their emails filtered to junk in my email but then I routinely receive email notices in my inbox from university emails warning me my "Account is expired/full/overdue" and I must take immediate action by clicking on a link. Hint: I think gmail filters are good. The rest? Not so much.
- profmonocle 10y agoThey are, if you can get them. Until recently my employer was using a mail provider that had seriously neglected their product. The spam filtering was atrocious, so I tried to avoid giving out my work email as much as possible. (Thankfully we finally switched to another provider because the old one refused to support DKIM or even STARTTLS to other MX servers.)
- hundchenkatze 10y agoThey are accessible over HTTP. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=115aeda69b6f45271b8d4f7a10dcf5261714b30c http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/commit/?id=115aeda...
- infodroid 10y agoI did not know that about Savannah. I am mainly familiar with Github, Bitbucket and Launchpad. I guess there is no point hiding from the bots these days.
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- tzs 10y agoThey are more accessible here on HN, though, because crawlers that obey robots.txt will not see it on git.savannah.gnu.org but will see it here on HN.
- yellowapple 10y agoI suspect that if a crawler is being used to farm email addresses for spamming, it's highly unlikely that robots.txt would be any deterrent whatsoever.
- mysidia1 10y agoSpammers' crawlers use URLs obtained from search engines and public sources. If the whole directory is blocked in robots.txt, it WILL reduce crawling activity massively.
- cyphar 10y agoWhy is everyone so uptight about their emails being public? If you're planning on doing free software development in public, your email is going to have to be publicly available anyway (otherwise people can't contact your for legitimate reasons). Spend the 15 minutes it takes to set up SpamAssassin and then get on with your life.
- mysidia1 10y agoSpamAssassin is about as effective as wet scotch tape. The existence of your e-mail address in public does not grant members of public permission to Republish or use however they please outside its intended purpose. Community standards say this information is mangled before republishing to the web, Otherwise, if you post someone's e-mail address, you are aiding and abetting spammers. At the very best, It is highly inconsiderate to republish, and in other cases, may result in legal actionw, as in suit for damages against the person who republished your e-mail address.