email address anti-spam encoding in portfiles

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 18 May 2007 06:58:53 -0700 James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:

>
> On May 18, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
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>> --On 17 May 2007 21:11:03 -0700 James Berry <jberry at macports.org>
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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.
>
> well, but given that I've proposed we also allow raw user names (within
> the macports.org domain), we really can't use a character that's legal in
> the user name, as we'd then be inclined to spit the user name up,
> mistaking it for a domain ;)

Good point!

>>> 	suxxex.ac.uk:iane
>>
>> yes, but it'd better be "sussex"!
>
> Indeed. I guess I was just subconsciously trying to keep you safe from
> the spambots!

thx :)

> james



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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