From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Spammers are now closing bugs Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ab6cphof.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <87ocurgoui.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240252922 10742 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2009 18:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 20:43:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LvySZ-0006Rr-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:43:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvyRA-0007nj-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvyPl-00077j-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvyPg-000759-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45204 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvyPg-00074u-6a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58092) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LvyPf-0004Ob-RE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LvyPf-0005k5-CM; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:40:15 -0400 X-Spook: Manfurov MD4 Jiang Zemin Rubin Legion of Doom Guantanamo X-Ran: U{QF2JAB*7H(y:A&qNSb0k9\dlA#/:!F@7hX'HT`xFCUf"/Z (Sven Joachim's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:30:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110374 Archived-At: Sven Joachim wrote: >> I can't think of a single reason to have unobscured email addresses >> visible on the bug web pages, as they are at present. > > I concur, but for Debian the debbugs maintainers have always rejected > address obfuscation. See http://bugs.debian.org/63995 and siblings. I can't say I'm surprised, but I am disappointed. GNU mailman gets this right. Our only hope seems to be that when/if emacsbugs transits to a gnu server, someone will be willing and able to modify the behaviour. >> I see a spammer has just closed bug 1407 again. BTW, I'm not going to reopen it, since it will just get closed again. >> How annoying for the person who opened this bug. > > He might not have the highest opinion of the Emacs bug tracker now, yes. He might not be alone.