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@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@foo.bar.com ==> com/foo.bar/user

- If the domain/tld is macports.org, then it may be dropped:

user@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.