email address anti-spam encoding in portfiles

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 17 May 2007 21:11:03 -0700 James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:

>
> As Ian pointed out, / isn't really good as it's a valid atext character
> from rfc 2822. So what if we head back to Salvatore's suggestion of:

Actually, you could use any character that isn't valid in an email domain, 
as long as you aren't munging the domain at all, but it's likely to be 
easier to implement with a colon.

> 	suxxex.ac.uk:iane

yes, but it'd better be "sussex"!

>
> That's more readable, and unlikely to be recognized by the spambots.
>



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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