Today the problem of email spam has a simple solution on your side: 1. If you run your own mail server, then http://spamassassin.apache.org/ is your best friend.
2. Quite a few free public mail services, e.g. https://mail.google.com, provide excellent spam filtering. So you can openly publish email address in plain text form (like FreeBSD project does) without any abuse from spammers. On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:42 AM, qjail1 <qja...@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > > In todays world the normal, customary, and prudent methodology is to > protect a users email address from public view so its increasingly more > difficult for it to be harvested for targets of spam. I ask WHY is the > Freebsd ports system using a very old methodology that was designed over 20 > years ago, before the birth of spam. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
