Hello Åke,

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:27:41AM +0100, Åke Rehnman wrote:
> I can only speculate but since I began contribute to openocd I have noticed
> a massive increase of spam. I note zylin is completely open to spam bots to
> harvest email addresses. I propose openocd zylin is configured to mask email
> addresses or require login preventing spam bots munching.

I propose an alternative theory: github and other services exposing
unobfuscated addresses in commit descriptions. Reasoning: Gerrit
requires JS to see anything at all and it's not too popular to become
a specific target for spam bots' authors.

I also failed to find any specific reports of Gerrit facilitating
spam.

If I use duckduckgo to search for "Åke Rehnman" I see some hits
containing email addresses, some are only trivially obfuscated.

Or am I missing something? What specific mechanism of obtaining emails
from gerrit do you have in mind?

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