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It’s interesting that the two comments to my comment referred to support. I remember decades ago the email address in the code being the “resume” for people. P
by jasonlotito 5y ago
It’s interesting that the two comments to my comment referred to support.
I remember decades ago the email address in the code being the “resume” for people. People using the Linux mailing list for example to “harvest” emails to contact those people about employment.
I think it’s fair to say if you share your email address out in an open source project and give away it’s code, it is an open invitation to contact the person. After all, the purpose of the email address is generally for contacting people.
If you don’t want to be contacted, you already have a solution: don’t use a real email address. But if you are putting your email address out there in public these days, the ONLY reason you are doing that is to be contacted.