autocomplete for names

Luis Villa luis.villa at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 14:38:15 UTC 2004


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:16:23 -0500, David Miller <justdave at bugzilla.org> wrote:
> Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> > Ah, cool. Assuming it works or can be made to work in 2.19, is there
> > any objection in principle to it going in?
> 
> As long as it's an option. :)  It basically exposes your entire user
> list to the general public (whether they've ever filed a bug or
> commented or not), which makes it not a good thing to have available by
> default.

This:
http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html

suggests that one doesn't actually have to have this expose the entire
list to the public, except to the persistent public who wants to write
a script to do it, and they can get 90% of that by spidering the
public pages anyway.

Archiving that URL here for future reference-
Luis



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