In some ways your reasoning makes sense, though I still feel that someone
posting an email to a generic bug reporting address (win### [at] povrayorg in this
case) ought to realise that at the very least, his report could go into a
publicly accessable bug database (that certainly is not unique in the industry
... I can cite the example of the Apache group (makers of the Apache web
server, which is the most popular on the internet) as a good example. As I
recall, all their bug reports are searchable by the public.

IMO it's never safe to 'assume' that any mail sent to a bug reporting address
is private (I certainly would not make that assumption).

However, to make sure this is known by users, a comment has been added to the
windows help file under the bug reports section telling them so. In addition,
we no longer will be taking Windows bug reports by email (that's not directly
related to this incident, though it didn't help). In future, all reports for
the Windows version must go to a newsgroup on this server.

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