On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:09:48 -0700, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
2012/3/17 Platonides <[email protected]>
Sure. I think there is a test repository somewhere precisely for that.
Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear. In this case I would like to get on
the list. I hope it won't be a problem that my userinfo contains an
e-mail
address encoded for human use against spambots.
I never get the need to obfuscate USERINFO emails like that.
Even ignoring how good spamfilters are today.
Looking at my spam folder, I have absolutely NO spam emails coming into
mediawiki@*, which I have listed in complete plain text in my USERINFO,
used in the @author line of some extensions, and iirc I even have some
extensions in public use that include it inside a mailto: in the credits
that show up on Special:Version.
On the other hand, mediawiki-bugs@* accounts for a decent amount of
e-mails in my spam folder.
So, people obfuscate their USERINFO in ways that any half decent bot
programmer could get around but no-one even bothers scanning. While the
moment they try to post a bug they expose their e-mail in a place that we
know bots do look through.
--
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
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