email address anti-spam encoding in portfiles

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On May 17, 2007, at 5:59 PM, James Berry wrote:

> Sure, I agree in principle that we're heading in a direction that  
> makes what you suggest possible. And this proposal does cover part  
> of that: if somebody has a macports.org account, they can just use  
> the user name portion of their email address. But we need to bridge  
> the gap between the now (when we don't have any good way for people  
> to get accounts if they're not committers) and the fact that most  
> of the maintainer email addresses in those files don't belong to  
> committers....and we'd like to find a quick and easy way to mangle  
> them out of sight of some of the spammers.

Fair enough.  Though you've just said something which really  
surprises me - we have maintainers that don't have commit access?    
What's the point of that?

- Jordan


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