The opendarwin .com debacle

[Scott Haneda]

See, even I'm confused :) Sorry, when mobile I go on memory and  
slipped that one up bad. You are correct in that this is about / 
darwinports/.com

-- 
Scott
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On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at macports.org>  
wrote:

> For clarification, I believe you're talking about http://www.darwinports.com 
>  , not opendarwin.com ...
>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:57, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> I've grown to truly appreciate the MacPorts project. I'm not as  
>> involved as I'd like to be, but my list of submitted ports is  
>> growing.
>>
>> I honestly have no idea how a few of you put so much dedicated time  
>> into this project. Thanks is not ever going to be enough.
>>
>> Two times now I've had someone tell me Fink was a better experience  
>> than Mac Ports to learn they had been to the .com site.
>>
>> Whether Fink is good or not is not the point I really care about,  
>> both Fink and MacPorts are viable projects.
>>
>> If two users were misinformed by the .com site, how many more are,  
>> have been, or will be?
>>
>> It appears the owner has turned to the dark side. Without getting  
>> into too much of a cat and mouse game, what about some very basic  
>> counter measures?
>>
>> He must be syncing the port tree from some machine on a schedule,  
>> why not block that machine?
>>
>> There are plenty of links on the .com that point to official  
>> MacPorts pages. Can we do a basic referrer check for those  
>> requests, and send them to a page that shorty explains the  
>> situation, quickly gives them links to get to official, and  
>> provides a detail link to the more verbose explanation?
>>
>> Isn't the site is violation of some aspect of some license of some  
>> form? If that is the case, make him release his source, or stop, or  
>> whatever we can find to make this go away.
>>
>> Not that a lot of people use my DNS, but I'm tempted to add a zone  
>> for his .com to point to nowhere. It's technicaly a phishing or  
>> malware site, perhaps a mass effort to report the domain to the in  
>> built browser phishing and malware lists is in order?
>>
>> Has anyone gone to the upstream ISP and explained this case? How  
>> many donations has he pilfered away from the team?
>>
>> Maybe this is really low on the problem scale these days, if so,  
>> ignore it I guess, but if I've personally hit two people who were  
>> confused, this must be more widespread.
>>
>> Anything I can do to help; I may not be able to patch as many ports  
>> as the next guy, but I can do gruntwork like this :)
>> -- 
>> Scott
>> Iphone says hello.
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