[Savannah-hackers] [ 100914 ] A way to hide your email address?

[nobody]

Support Request #100914, was updated on 2002-May-15 00:55
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Category: Web
Status: Open
Priority: 1
Summary: A way to hide your email address?

By: nospam
Date: 2002-May-15 02:54

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=7365
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 
Netscape6/6.2.2

To sum up:

1) Spam

Potentially it might make a user getting more spam, that his
email is shown.

2) Privacy

The issue is not that I don't wanna get contact ed, but that
some people consider their email as "private information".

E.g. some wanna hang on to the bit of (seemingly) anonymity
the net gives you.  Actually I think I know a guy that would
not sign up here, even if he wanted to, if he knew he had to
give away his eamil.
I don't mind that I can be contacted, but I would prefer
that the email wasn't shown.  Then if someone contacted me,
I could either choose to give my email, or use the webinterface.

In fact, I'd like to be able to recieve emails from chosen
discussions/bugs/Support requests etc.

I dunno much about the savannah internals, how you do users
etc. and setting up a mailserver, with an (updated from the
web /etc/mail/aliases file or smt.) might be too much
trouble for this problem.  But the one with the
web-interface, seems to be solved allready. (With the
sendmessage.php thingy).

Maybe my friend and I are just more concerned about privacy,
than most users, I dunno.  We are all different, with
different wishes.

Sincerely,
A (more or less) anonymous user.

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By: nospam
Date: 2002-May-15 01:47

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=7365
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 
Netscape6/6.2.2

Its not that I *dont* want to be contacted, but spam is not
the only issue.

I know I could just have supported a random public email
created for the purpose, and disposed it, but that is not
what I want.

I guess it would be nice if you could set your email not to
be shown, but users could still contact you by the
webinterface (at least if they're logged in).Best sollution
I can think of would be if you had a "savannah alias" email,
that would only accept email from registered savannah users,
but I guess that would be rather complicated to implement.

The spam is another issue.  s/ AT /@/g etc.

the random word is a good idea, but wouldn't you be able to
do a s/[^ ]* AT /@/ or something?

Sincirly,


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