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it's impossible for github to block this. you just need to do a git clone and you get all the email addresses in the commit history of a repository. unless yo
by zhfliz 5y ago
it's impossible for github to block this.
you just need to do a git clone and you get all the email addresses in the commit history of a repository.
unless you're talking about your publicly displayed email address (visible to logged-in users), which I believe is not shown by default and can be disabled easily.
- dustyharddrive 5y agoI’m talking about a genre of emails where the targets are those who’ve simply starred a GitHub repo. Even if they get the actual email addresses from a git log or off-platform, they’re still abusing the GitHub API (or screen-scraping) to discover users to spam in the first place. It is possible for GitHub to guard those list pages with captchas and use reports to catch API abusers.