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Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:47:57PM -0600, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> 
>>I'm afraid there's not much that FreeBSD can do about this.  All PRs are
>>forwarded to the public freebsd-bugs mailing list ...
> 
> There's no reason the sender address needs to go to the mailing
> list or be visable on the web, is there?

I have fixed a number of problems on my system
by looking through the PR database and contacting
folks who had similar problems in the past.

Suppressing the email addresses of bug submitters
would largely eliminate this very useful support avenue.

Tim