I support this, and I'd go one further. A format I use internally is 
macports.org:jberry. A slash would work equally well. In either case, a 
basic regular expression couldn't catch it.

-- Sal
smile.

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  Salvatore Domenick Desiano
    Doctoral Candidate
      Robotics Institute
        Carnegie Mellon University

On Tue, 15 May 2007, James Berry wrote:

o I thought I'd run by everybody the novel concept of anti-spam encoding email
o addresses in portfiles. For all other cases we could obfuscate the address,
o but with Portfiles we're sortof stuck, since we need to be able to make these
o available in raw form in various places (svn, mpwa, etc).
o 
o What if we adopt the convention in the maintainer field of using user/domain
o instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a feeling the spambots won't find that, 
and
o it's pretty easy to recognize as a user (or to reconstitute as  a machine).
o 
o So to be completely clear, I propose that we would encode my email address
o ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as jberry/macports.org
o 
o Feedback?
o 
o James
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