Re: Problem on whoisam.php page!
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:29:02PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > > I think we should completely remove the personal email addresses from that
> > > > page. It's just a gift to spammer bots, nobody else needs that list anyway.
> > >
> > > That reason is nonsense. There are tons of other pages where the mail
> > > adresses are listed, too; even with mailto: links (that might be
> > > prefered by such bots, I guess). Just think of the mailarchives or the
> > > w.d.o/devel/people page.
> >
> > 1) The existence of other sources is a reason FOR removal of this, not
> > against. Who needs redundancy?
> > 2) In the other sources I get to pick which address I will let the
> > spammers abuse -- here, an address is used against my wishes.
> > 3) Let me reiterate that nobody but spammers needs that list anyway. An NM
> > knows the address of their AM because they contacted him. The Front desk
> > knows the address because they're omnipotent :) And others know the
> > address from those other pages.
>
> Gee thanks for the godhood ;-)
>
> Actually I depend on this information to contact AMs. If you don't, as an
> AM, have acces to change this in your profile (I'm not sure if you do or
> not), just contact me and I'll change it to whatever you want. (as long as
> it is one of _your_ addresses ;-)
Well, I don't mind you (or any other Debian person) contacting me at the
address listed there, but I do mind it being publicly displayed like it is
now.
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