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  1. Bug #111147
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 111147

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Don Cristóbal (doncristobal) wrote : Re: no way to completely hide email address

I agree that finding a solution for the future is a central task here. But I also request Launchpad to asap remove the quite many copies of my email address from the existing postings. Maybe I'm naïve, but in my opinion this should not be too difficult. Something like
s/\w.*?@\w.*?\.\w.*?/(email address removed for reasons of privacy/
should do the job, shouldn't it?* It could be applied to all existing posts and to all new messages from tomorrow.

Please increase this bug's importance. It is not at all low. Launchpad pretends to take my concerns seriously by offering me to hide my email address, but it does not fulfil its promise. I'm disappointed.

*) The regex is obviously not yet ok, it's just an example. For instance, it would miss <email address hidden> because of the two points. But don't worry, there must be THE very sophisticated regex-to-catch-them-all out there, that no email address ever escaped.