qjail1 wrote: > Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> A year ago I was receiving loads of spam email on the maintainer >>> email addresses used in the ports makefile. I created bug tickets to >>> change the user name part of the email address for all the ports I >>> maintain, but some how I missed the qjail2 port. Now that port says >>> its maintained by po...@freebsd.org and the spam email has stopped. >>> >>> Since bugzilla uses the port maintainer email address as the way to >>> identify the port maintainer, I no longer can post updates to qjail2 >>> port. >> >> We'll understand that the patch comes from you, so just submit it. >> >>> Why has Freebsd NOT done something to protect their port maintainers >>> from spam. >> >> Because if you think that not having the email addresses in the port >> protects you from spam, this probably will not scale. Spam defense is >> not a task the FreeBSD project can also take on, in addition >> to all the others. >> > > 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. The majority of > customer websites and programming development websites all have > protected their user email addresses, WHY NOT FREEBSD?
Actually that's the very reason I am a port maintainer > > It's way past the time that this problem gets the attention it deserves. > Lets at least create a project to analyze the ports system "Maintainer > email address" to see just what would be involved in populating it > with a dummy value so every place it is viewable to the public the > real content is masked, this includes the down loadable ports tree. > I'd rather give people email addresses to use and keep the real ones in the tree easily scrape-able. Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ _______________________________________________ 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"
