Following discussion with several of you, and more thought, my
thinking is now:
(1) Obfuscate plain text email addresses by using the form:
- tld/domain/username
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==> com/bar/user
- if there are multiple components in the hostname, only the dot
before the tld is turned into a slash:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==> com/foo.bar/user
- If the domain/tld is macports.org, then it may be dropped:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==> user
Note that this is machine reversible, and also fairly easy for a
user to produce manually, both of which are important considerations.
(2) If a Portfile is submitted with a maintainer email address
containing an @, we will accept it as such (this is up to the
submitter/maintainer).
We're providing a means by which port maintainers may
obfuscate their address, but not mandating that they do so.
Note that this is also a machine detectable situation.
(3) There are a number of other cases in which email addresses may
show up. This doesn't attempt to deal with all of them yet. Small steps.
Among these are:
- CIA commit pages
- Trac commits and perhaps bug reports too
- Mailing list archives
- irc logs
If I don't hear any contradictory pleas soon, I'm going to move ahead
with this, perhaps including auto fixing all the portfiles.
James
On May 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, 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?
James
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