email address anti-spam encoding in portfiles

[Kevin Ballard]

We'd also have to remove the id keyword from all Portfiles, since  
user names are email addresses.

On May 16, 2007, at 8:12 PM, James Berry wrote:

> 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 at 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 at foo.bar.com ==> com/foo.bar/user
>
> 		- If the domain/tld is macports.org, then it may be dropped:
> 			user at 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.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
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