https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24307

Chad H. <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #2 from Chad H. <[email protected]> 2010-07-08 11:03:08 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #1)
> It is no longer shown to logged out users, it will show your "real" name (set
> in the user prefernces - for example mine is set to "p858snake").
> 

True.

> The reason it is visible is because bugzilla relies heavily on emails to 
> inform
> users that events have occurred on bugs that they are cc'ed to.
>

Also true. BZ shouldn't need to make e-mail addys as public as they do, but
meh.

(In reply to comment #0)
> This is not really acceptable in my opinion, and is the reason I created a 
> junk
> email and an awful user name: I don't want to be identified by bots and 
> spammed
> to death. 
> 

Like p858snake said, you have to login to be able to view e-mail addresses
(this is since we upgraded). Nothing's to stop a bot from registering of
course... but it at least stops the drive-by bots.

> Is my impression wrong? Or are these the terms and other users are happy?

Your impression is pretty much correct. I guess it just doesn't bother most of
us.

I'm marking this INVALID. It's not really an actionable bug and the terms
already describe how things are.

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