Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file
Le Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:16:53PM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit :
>
> I personally agree. I don't bother munging my email address
> at all anymore, as I don't think it helps a great deal in
> the mid to long term, and it certainly detracts from the
> usefulness of an address. However if an upstream author of a
> package wishes to conceal their address, I think we should
> honour that.
Hi all,
I would like to remind you of a Windows virus which hit Debian users
badly in the past. From infected machines, it was crawling web archives
of Debian lists (maybe not on l.d.o), and extracting email adresses for
sending megaoctets of emails containing a 300 Ko .exe file. Bandwidth
was not so great at this time so even people on DSL were quite annoyed.
Very surprisingly, it was quickly discovered that the virus was
specifically avoiding the adresses in which the "nospam" keyword was
found, were they legitimate or not.
This example shows us that we should not look down on the people who use
primitive address obsfucation techniques, they may have very good reason
for.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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