On Fri, 2006-Mar-24 14:15:52 -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >It's one thing for me to say my email address is public info, >but it does not seem right for me to say that everyone who >submits a valuable patch to FreeBSD must also have their >email address posted for spammers to pick up on.
Spammers can just as easily harvest the PR database. I think this thread is getting off-topic and belongs elsewhere since this is a topic that is probably more relevant to a wider audience than people who read the CVS lists. IMHO, the Project needs to formulate guidelines covering the use of e-mail addresses in commit messages etc. There is already a warning in the PR submission web page but it only mentions the web interface and does not mention that your address may appear elsewhere. There is no warning in send-pr. I don't believe it's practical for the Project to state that e-mail addresses will be obfuscated because: - Any documented algorithm can be readily inverted by spammers - In the absence of any documented algorithm, people can complain that the way an e-mail address has been munged isn't 'obfuscation'. - It's not practical to obfuscate addresses in all situations so un-obfuscated addresses would still be visible via some mechanisms. The easiest solution is probably to add disclaimers to anywhere that the user provides an e-mail address (send-pr, send-pr.html, mailman, mailman confirmation messages etc) warning that the supplied e-mail address will be visible on the web etc. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
