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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:16:00 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Yes, send-pr results in virus emails
Message-ID:  <20040128221600.GS47004@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <4017FB72.2030107@acm.org>
References:  <20040126135820.E20430@tikitechnologies.com> <20040127194757.GV16440@geekpunk.net> <20040128152505.GA54647@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <4017FB72.2030107@acm.org>

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:12:02AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Leo Bicknell wrote:
> >In a message written on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:47:57PM -0600, Brandon D=
=2E=20
> >Valentine wrote:
> >
> >>I'm afraid there's not much that FreeBSD can do about this.  All PRs are
> >>forwarded to the public freebsd-bugs mailing list ...
> >
> >There's no reason the sender address needs to go to the mailing
> >list or be visable on the web, is there?
>=20
> I have fixed a number of problems on my system
> by looking through the PR database and contacting
> folks who had similar problems in the past.
>=20
> Suppressing the email addresses of bug submitters
> would largely eliminate this very useful support avenue.

It also will not happen (at least while I am responsible for the PRs).

Ceri

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