Why did you "wontfix" bug 63995? Because it won't be fixed.
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Johan Walles wrote: > recently you tagged bug 63995 "bugs.debian.org reveals e-mail > addresses to spammers" with a comment saying "YEAY STUPID DON'T SHOW > MY EMAIL MEME!". > > As I don't think that comment really deals with the solutions > suggested in the bug report, I'd appreciate it a lot if you could > come up with a better explanation and CC it to 63995. The solution (namely, turning @ into <!-- blah -->@<!-- blah --> is a needless obfuscation that isn't going to actually net us anything. Not to mention the fact that this is absolutely trivial for anyone harvesting messages to circumvent, the actual e-mail addresses are made available to multiple mailing lists, and far more useful methods exist for dealing with the "spam problem". [And no, we're definetly not going to be munging the e-mail addresses present in the mboxes.] See also the thousands of messages that have been expended on similar arguments regarding lists.debian.org. Don Armstrong -- [this space for rent] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
