Bot creating issues

Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Nov 26 01:19:48 PST 2016


Am Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:43:07 -0800
schrieb "H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:

> > I hope that the bot don't use a real address because you've forget
> > to uncheck "CC add me to the list"...which means that your address
> > is possibly added to a database.  
> 
> Oops! :-(
> 

If bots really want to collect email addresses from bugzilla there are
other ways to do that: The 'bug report changed' email sent by bugzilla
contains email addresses anyway:

hsteoh at ... changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |hsteoh at ...
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

Also all these messages get posted to d.D.bugs including full email
addresses. This archive can be indexed by crawlers:
https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fforum.dlang.org%2Fgroup%2Fissues&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=V1I5WM3QI8Kv8wfJsrKwAw#q=site:http:%2F%2Fforum.dlang.org%2Fgroup%2Fissues+hsteoh

Additionally every logged in bugzilla user can see the email address of
any other bugzilla user when reading a bug report.


TLDR; better use a good spam filter :-(


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