From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13475 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2005 17:33:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13462 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2005 17:33:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 28 Feb 2005 17:33:54 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 1A2021B560; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:34:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:41:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [My e-mail address in gcc-bugs mailing list archive] Message-ID: <20050228173405.GH29453@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sourceware.org References: <20050228162811.GA2002@sourceware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2005-q1/txt/msg00284.txt.bz2 On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >Chris Faylor writes: > >> Maybe we need some kind of general admonition against this? >> It really isn't nice to include someone else's raw email addresses >> in the text of a message. > >No, but in our context it's nearly impossible to avoid, when people >start quoting ChangeLog entries. Right, but there are certain conventions which we could avoid, like, for instance, the above, where you quoted my raw email address in the "... writes:" I know that this is basically a losing battle but I don't see any reason to make things even slightly easier for spammers. I once tried to come up with a general filter which could be applied to email messages so that ChangeLogs were left alone but anything after a > or a "From: " was munged. Maybe I should resurrect that. cgf