Hi, On Thursday 27 September 2007 08:39, Ben Finney wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact > > information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package. > This seems to be the point of disagreement. I think this should be > required...
Whether or not it its an requirement to be able to contact the author, doesnt
have anything to do with obfuscating the email address or not. (Assuming its
not obfuscated beyond recognitition.) (*)
Unless you talk about the requirement to be able to contact the author without
human intervention. But I haven't read anybody requiring that.
And as Lars wrote in the email you replied to:
> Mind you, I don't like obfuscation, and I think it's a nuisance myself,
> but we shouldn't violate people's wish to try to avoid spam by
> publishing their addresses in un-obfuscated form. That only makes people
> angry at us for little or no benefit, since there are no situations when
> we want to automatically send e-mails to upstream developers anyway.
I completly agree with those five lines.
regards,
Holger
(*) BTW, I dont have an example at hand, but I'm pretty sure I have seen code
in Debian written by anonymous and friends. You can't contact them either.
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