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@eXtreme eXtreme commented Jul 3, 2012

I don't want my email address being exposed so easily to google.

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That's odd since the first Google result for your name is http://jacek.jedrzejewski.name/ which lists every possible way to contact you, including your email address...

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isaacs commented Jul 5, 2012

Email addresses are not private. That hasn't been a realistic security or privacy concern for decades now. You should assume it's exposed the minute you send email to anyone or sign up for anything, especially if you are a developer working on the internet. It took all of two clicks to find your email address from this pull request.

Removing it from a single AUTHORS.txt file will have no effect; it's in the git repository already (obviously including previous revisions of the file, but also on whatever commits you landed that caused you to be in that file in the first place), and will be preserved for all time, on the computer of everyone who has ever cloned the repository.

You can't put the feathers back in the pillow once they're scattered to the wind.

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eXtreme commented Jul 5, 2012

Wow, man, seriously, I know ALL of that, you don't have to teach me where my email is. But changing that line will exclude it from being visible under addresses like this http://view.jqueryui.com/master/AUTHORS.txt. I know it is a lost cause (for example a patch with authors.txt was recently "exposed" in a patch to drupal) but why is it such a big deal for you? As the owner of this address shouldn't I be able to do whatever I want with my signature? If you don't like a web address there, change it to jacek.jedrzejewski+removeme@... or something like this.

BTW. I don't know why my previouse comment is gone but I wrote there that email address on my website is "generated" by javascript and not present in site's source code.

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Landed in d46c27a.

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