Thread: Bugzilla members' security? Publication of email addresses leads to spam?
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2010-05-30 , 19:28
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Originally Posted by thp View Post
Privacy-loving people should already know about mailinator.com and other pages that allow users to create "throw-away" e-mail addresses on the fly.
Have you confirmed that bugs.maemo.org accepts mailinator.com addresses?

If it does, that's would be almost reasonable. I say "almost", because mail sent to mailinator addresses is public, and the user has the burden of proactively checking the web for replies (and it's a separate check per address).
Originally Posted by thp View Post
There also exist services that allow you to create temporary-forwarding addresses that will accept only a few (e.g. 10) mails and then stop fowarding mail to your real address. Can't remember right now how that service is called, though.
spamgourmet.com is one -- and it's being blocked from those who sign up for bug tracker accounts.

Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
havent seen any spam in my email I use in bugzilla....
I've proven the contrary. I managed to find a disposable address that didn't get rejected. So all the spam now flooding into that address is purely from a compromise in the bugzilla system. It's the reason I started the thread that got merged with this one.

(if you're wondering why I don't continue with that type of address, the sysadmins have figured it out since I created it, and it's now blocked. bugs.maemo.org now blocks the slightest modification to that address)

Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
In the context of bug reporting, why would we want anonymity from participants? That's not a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely curious.
Bug reporters are public servants who contribute positively to the community. The idea is to encourage this (uncompensated) behavior.

Both forcing users to give up a real email address, and then simultaneously denying them the option to hide that address is not the way to encourage participants to offer their services.

It's totally unreasonable that maemo.org has taken a stance against disposable addresses, and then forced exposure of the more sacred addresses they forced people to register with.