Bhargava Shastry <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> The mistake is on my part. I am breaking up my email by hand because I
> fear bots on the Internet are going to pick up well formatted emails and
> send spam :-)
>
> Is my concern well-founded? Do you have any suggestions for fighting
> auto-scraping of email addresses?

Well, I don't know much about all of that.

But I'll point out that the mailing list web interface does filter your
email (so it already reads 'bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de').  And bots
can scrape the patchwork database for your actual email anyway (which
will include the From: field).  They even just subscribe to the list
and then you offer it to them freely.

It might be best to keep with the well formatted signed-off-by lines for
now, and try to improve your spam filter technology.

> Regards,
> Bhargava
>
> On 09/28/2018 05:20 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> [email protected] writes:
>> 
>>> From: Bhargava Shastry <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> oss-fuzz options file must begin with a [libfuzzer] header.
>>> This was missing in the expr_parse_target.options file which this patch 
>>> fixes.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bhargava Shastry <bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de>
>>> ---
>> 
>> Just wanted to let you know that the bot is complaining because of your
>> signature line:
>> 
>>  'Signed-off-by: Bhargava Shastry <bshastry at sect.tu-berlin.de>'
>> 
>> I'm not sure if we should amend checkpatch to recognize this kind of
>> construct.  It isn't an email address.
>> 
>> Is this a mistake on your end, or is some mail filter scrambling it?
>> 
>> Then again, maybe we should adopt Postel's law and allow for ' at ' to
>> also be an email divider for signoff lines?
>> 
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