From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262694AbTDZRxf (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:53:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262700AbTDZRxf (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:53:35 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:27147 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262694AbTDZRxe (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:53:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:06:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Shachar Shemesh cc: Zack Brown , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ChangeLog suggestion In-Reply-To: <3EAAC588.9010806@shemesh.biz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Note that the "author" info is only semi readable from CVS. It contains > just the user part of the email address (in my case - "lkml" for spam > reasons - hardly a unique identifier). I'm told that under BK it has the > full email, so I'm not sure where that stands there. People have indeed asked me to do that even for the BK tree - to avoid spammers picking up the address. I don't want to do it. Personally, I want to have some address that I can reach the author at, and if that means that spammers can pick it up too (open source means that everybody has the same stuff _I_ have) I guess people who want to talk to me need to live with spam filters or send patches to me from special accounts. But both the short-format changelog (the ones posted to linux-kernel) and the CVS tree do hide the addresses somewhat. Linus