On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:40, Magnus Berg wrote: > It's not fun to reports bugs to the Debian bug tracking system. The thanks > you get is spam. That's the price you pay for participation on the internet in any capacity, the Debian BTS is not a special case. > I have a special e-mail address that I use then I'm little afraid that it > becomes public. My intention is to change that address then it collect to > much spam. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful Also check out spamassassin, it does pretty well even on spam forwarded by the BTS. > The report you can see was a ordinary e-mail sent to the maintainer of > Aptitude. He saw it as a Dpkg thing and asked me if he could send it to the > public dpkg list. I said O.K. Now you can think I have to blame myself but > I could never thought about that he would include my personal information, > including my main e-mail address, then he send it further to the public > dpkg list. But he did. You said he could. That's your fault. Besides, the moment you ever used your email address it became public information. Deal with it. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://jabber.ursine.ca/
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