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Yesterday I got a SPAM mail with a from line that had the name of an old friend of mine that I have not seen for years, so I searched for him on google.

In Spain we have two surnames, but the mail I got had only a name and a surname; looking for that gave me a lot of results, but as I remembered both surnames of my friend, I searched again using a quoted string with his name and both surnames. That time I found four or five matches that I'm sure are related to him, but no address or anything useful to find him.

Then I could have left it at that, but I did something everybody does when first tries google: I searched for my name (name and two surnames, quoted) and I found a lot of matches (more than 3500 results) and started to look at them (after a quick look there were only 22 google pages).

It was curious to look at the results, I found a lot of old messages posted to mailing lists years ago, references to an HTML manual I wrote back in 1996, contributions to projects I haven't used for years and so on.

But the best finding I did was an article titled Social Networks From Free/Open Source Developer Weblogs. I have not found the way the author did his initial calculus about who was the man, but he found my name on his first try, so it has to be bogus in some way (in fact the article says that I have a lot of references to external sites on my blog, but that's simply not true, at least I'm sure I'm not the one with more external references, maybe the test was done with the output of only one day?).

Anyway, it was funny, but it's sad to know that I'll probably won't be the man any longer, as I can be removed from Planet Debian as Ian Murdock has been because I'm a real sinner:

And a lot of other things I'm sure I've done or written without knowing...

It's sad to see this things happen on Debian, I hope it gets fixed ASAP (BTW, I would prefer to add Ian again, instead of removing to almost everybody else... ;)