Re: Hiding email addresses from spammers on https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> However, I *strongly* object to any change that would munge, hide, put
> behind captcha, or otherwise make it difficult for people to see *my*
> e-mail address on the bugs that I report or on the packages that I
> maintain.  Please do *not* protect my e-mail address in some well-meaning
> but misguided desire to help me with my spam.  I already have tools that
> do that, and I do not want anyone to put any hurdles whatsoever in the way
> of people being able to contact me about any of my Debian work.

I want to second this.  I post to Usenet, a lot, using my real
email address.  I'd rather be accessible than spam-free.
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