Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian maintainers are required to provide a valid email address in the > maintainer field for package uploads. Some maintainers have adopted the > policy of various arbitrary filtering rules of their own invention, > under which they will not receive some proper email from perfectly > legitimate senders communicating about their packages.
> I believe such packages should be treated exactly as if the developer in > question has simply put no email address at all in the package. I adopt no particular spam filtering rules at the SMTP layer, but I use bogofilter (a Bayesian-trained spam filter) to pre-process my mail and weed out the spam. The chances of me noticing a false positive are non-zero but fairly low. It is plausible that some users trying to contact me about my packages would have their mail filtered out and thereby receive no response from me. (It's unlikely, or I wouldn't use this spam filtering method, but bogofilter is not immune to false positives.) Should an e-mail address so filtered be considered equivalent to no e-mail address at all? If so, I'm not sure how many Debian packages are going to be left with valid e-mail addresses by this formulation. If not, by what objective criteria would you distinguish between what I do and what someone else might do for spam filtering? You may want to bear in mind the false-positive rate of purely manual human spam filtering. My experience is that bogofilter does a better job than I would do myself at a task that's mind-numbing and particularly ill-suited to human cognition. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
