Hey, On 2020/01/20 22:25, teor wrote: > * do some minimal validation on the email field, that makes sure it looks > like an email address. (Or don't, so operators can obfuscate their > addresses from spammers.)
Is the kind of obfuscation, we see in use today, for the `ContactInfo`-field useful against spammers at all? My intuition says no, but it might be wrong. I personally don't believe I've received more unwanted email by not obfuscating my email address on my relays. I think the suggestion in our man-page with generating a new email address for the relay contact information might be a better option for everybody if this is a concern to the operator. The RIPE database allows me to list the email addresses associated with various objects, if I pass some flags to their whois server, so I would assume we could add a requirement that a relay operator should use something that structurally resembles an email address at the very least. At some point in a distant future, we could even require that the email addresses are "validated" by having some service sending an email to the operator of a new relay and have them click on some link to a validation service if we think that is useful to have. All the best, Alex. -- Alexander Færøy _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
