Protecting launchpad users from spam-bots.

[Cai ZhongHan]

Hi,

This is Bug 91089.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/91089

ZhongHan

>From: Steve Alexander <steve at canonical.com>
>Subject: Re: Protecting launchpad users from spam-bots.
>To: verb <verb3k at gmail.com>
>Cc: Carlos Perell? , launchpad-users at lists.canonical.com,	Jeroen
>	Vermeulen <jtv at canonical.com>
>Message-ID: <461694DC.9090700 at canonical.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>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
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:12:08 +0200
>From: Steve Alexander <steve at canonical.com>
>Subject: Re: Protecting launchpad users from spam-bots.
>To: verb <verb3k at gmail.com>
>Cc: launchpad-users at lists.canonical.com
>Message-ID: <4616C5B8.3030805 at canonical.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>Hi Ali,
>
>I don't know if my previous reply got through to this mailing list.  I
>know you received it personally, as you sent me a reply.
>
>Anyway... it's a bug in Launchpad that your email address has been
>visible to Google.  I apologise for that.
>
>I've just put a work-around in place in Launchpad.  If you look at the
>pages for translating the "translator-credits" string when you are
>logged into Launchpad, you will still see your email address there,
>along with that of other translators.
>
>However, if you log out of Launchpad, and look at the same translation
>page, the "translator-credits" string and its translations is hidden.
>This will prevent Google and other search engines from indexing those
>email addresses.
>
>Here are the three pages I found via Google.  You can try them out, both
>logged into Launchpad, and not logged in.
>
>https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/yelp/+pots/yelp/ar/+translate?start=250
>
>https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/alacarte/+pots/alacarte/ar/+translate
>
>https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/xubuntu-docs/+pots/desktopguide/ar/+translate?start=530
>
>
>The Rosetta team will look at making a better solution next week.
>
>Thank you for reporting this problem, and I apologise again that we
>leaked your email address to be indexed by Google.
>
>--
>Steve Alexander
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Ali
>
>
>
>

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