… I don’t want my employer\/wife\/friends to see that I’ve contributed something cool to an open source project, or perhaps that I said something stupid 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
I host and co-host a bunch of different mailing list archives for projects on web sites, and I never cease to get stumped by how many people are trying hard to avoid getting seen on the internet. I can understand the cases where users accidentally leak information they intended to be kept private (although the removal from an archive is then not a fix since it has already been leaked to the world), but I can never<\/em> understand the large crowd that tries to hide previous contributions to open source projects because they think the current or future employers may notice and have a (bad) opinion about it.<\/p>\n I don’t have the slightest sympathy for the claim that they get a lot of spam because of their email on my archives, since I only host very public lists and the person’s address was already posted publicly to hundreds of receivers and in most cases also to several other mailing list archives.<\/p>\n People are weird!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … I don’t want my employer\/wife\/friends to see that I’ve contributed something cool to an open source project, or perhaps that I said something stupid 10 years ago. I host and co-host a bunch of different mailing list archives for projects on web sites, and I never cease to get stumped by how many people … Continue reading Please hide my email<\/span>