I support this, and I'd go one further. A format I use internally is macports.org:jberry. A slash would work equally well. In either case, a basic regular expression couldn't catch it. -- Sal smile. -------------- Salvatore Domenick Desiano Doctoral Candidate Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University On Tue, 15 May 2007, James Berry wrote: o I thought I'd run by everybody the novel concept of anti-spam encoding email o addresses in portfiles. For all other cases we could obfuscate the address, o but with Portfiles we're sortof stuck, since we need to be able to make these o available in raw form in various places (svn, mpwa, etc). o o What if we adopt the convention in the maintainer field of using user/domain o instead of user@domain. I have a feeling the spambots won't find that, and o it's pretty easy to recognize as a user (or to reconstitute as a machine). o o So to be completely clear, I propose that we would encode my email address o (jberry@macports.org) as jberry/macports.org o o Feedback? o o James o _______________________________________________ o macports-dev mailing list o macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org o http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev o