On May 15, 2007, at 20:25, James Berry wrote:
I thought I'd run by everybody the novel concept of anti-spam
encoding email addresses in portfiles. For all other cases we could
obfuscate the address, but with Portfiles we're sortof stuck, since
we need to be able to make these available in raw form in various
places (svn, mpwa, etc).
What if we adopt the convention in the maintainer field of using
user/domain instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a feeling the spambots
won't find that, and it's pretty easy to recognize as a user (or to
reconstitute as a machine).
So to be completely clear, I propose that we would encode my email
address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as jberry/macports.org
Feedback?
I'd love to reduce the amount of spam I receive. But obfuscating the
maintainers in the portfile may not be sufficient. I'm also concerned
about the login to the Subversion server, which is also my email
address. This appears in the $Id$ tag at the top of portfiles I've
modified, and there are also several sites tracking the Subversion
commits and making this available on the web, without obfuscation, of
course. For example, the first Google hit for searching for my email
address is currently:
http://cia.vc/stats/author/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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