On May 15, 2007, at 20:25, James Berry wrote:
I thought I'd run by everybody the novel concept of anti-spam encoding email addresses in portfiles. For all other cases we could obfuscate the address, but with Portfiles we're sortof stuck, since we need to be able to make these available in raw form in various places (svn, mpwa, etc).
What if we adopt the convention in the maintainer field of using user/domain instead of user@domain. I have a feeling the spambots won't find that, and it's pretty easy to recognize as a user (or to reconstitute as a machine).
So to be completely clear, I propose that we would encode my email address (jberry@macports.org) as jberry/macports.org
Feedback?
I'd love to reduce the amount of spam I receive. But obfuscating the maintainers in the portfile may not be sufficient. I'm also concerned about the login to the Subversion server, which is also my email address. This appears in the $Id$ tag at the top of portfiles I've modified, and there are also several sites tracking the Subversion commits and making this available on the web, without obfuscation, of course. For example, the first Google hit for searching for my email address is currently: http://cia.vc/stats/author/ryandesign@macports.org