Protecting launchpad users from spam-bots.

[Steve Alexander]

verb wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if there is any planned action to protect launchpad
> users from spam-bots.When I searched for my email address in google , it
> appeared that the only place I had my email address written in clear was
> launchpad ,which is unfortunate. 
> 
> Hope to get a reply soon and thanks in advance.

That's interesting.  When I search google for my address, I see the top
hits in a GPG keyserver, then in various bugtrackers for MochiKit and
Debian, and lists.ubuntu.com.

But I don't see it in Launchpad at all.

When I search for your email address in Google, I see a hit for
Launchpad, on this translation page:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/yelp/+pots/yelp/ar/+translate?start=250

Sure enough, when I look there, various email addresses are visible.

This is a bug, and I apologise for that.  We should not be displaying
full email addresses on the translation page that is visible to
anonymous users and search robots.

I'm cc-ing members of the Rosetta team, so that they can get this fixed.

-- 
Steve Alexander