Re: ChangeLog suggestion

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
> Note that the "author" info is only semi readable from CVS. It contains 
> just the user part of the email address (in my case - "lkml" for spam 
> reasons - hardly a unique identifier). I'm told that under BK it has the 
> full email, so I'm not sure where that stands there.

People have indeed asked me to do that even for the BK tree - to avoid 
spammers picking up the address. I don't want to do it.

Personally, I want to have some address that I can reach the author at,
and if that means that spammers can pick it up too (open source means that
everybody has the same stuff _I_ have) I guess people who want to talk to
me need to live with spam filters or send patches to me from special 
accounts.

But both the short-format changelog (the ones posted to linux-kernel) and 
the CVS tree do hide the addresses somewhat.

			Linus