Last modified: 2010-07-12 16:53:09 UTC
When signing in to bugzilla, the privacy terms include something like (not a quote) --your email will be posted along with every contribution you make, and will be visible to everyone, including bots scanning this site. This is not really acceptable in my opinion, and is the reason I created a junk email and an awful user name: I don't want to be identified by bots and spammed to death. Is my impression wrong? Or are these the terms and other users are happy?
It is no longer shown to logged out users, it will show your "real" name (set in the user prefernces - for example mine is set to "p858snake"). The reason it is visible is because bugzilla relies heavily on emails to inform users that events have occurred on bugs that they are cc'ed to.
(In reply to comment #1) > It is no longer shown to logged out users, it will show your "real" name (set > in the user prefernces - for example mine is set to "p858snake"). > True. > The reason it is visible is because bugzilla relies heavily on emails to inform > users that events have occurred on bugs that they are cc'ed to. > Also true. BZ shouldn't need to make e-mail addys as public as they do, but meh. (In reply to comment #0) > This is not really acceptable in my opinion, and is the reason I created a junk > email and an awful user name: I don't want to be identified by bots and spammed > to death. > Like p858snake said, you have to login to be able to view e-mail addresses (this is since we upgraded). Nothing's to stop a bot from registering of course... but it at least stops the drive-by bots. > Is my impression wrong? Or are these the terms and other users are happy? Your impression is pretty much correct. I guess it just doesn't bother most of us. I'm marking this INVALID. It's not really an actionable bug and the terms already describe how things are.
Thank you for the comments. It is weird, and opposite of wikipedia policy, but as you're happy...
