email address anti-spam encoding in portfiles

[James Berry]

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
			user at bar.com ==> com/bar/user

		- if there are multiple components in the hostname, only the dot  
before the tld is turned into a slash:
			user at foo.bar.com ==> com/foo.bar/user

		- If the domain/tld is macports.org, then it may be dropped:
			user at macports.org ==> 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 user at domain. 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 (jberry at macports.org) as jberry/macports.org
>
> Feedback?
>
> James
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