From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Feb 9 15:03:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89CDAA39BA for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C930A1CD6 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id C5A8EAA39B9; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53DEAA39B8 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:03:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (mail.sorbs.net [67.231.146.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77F81CD4; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:03:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0O2A0023EA1BH200@hades.sorbs.net>; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 06:10:27 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <56B9F1AB.1080208@sorbs.net> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:03:23 +0100 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: qjail1 Cc: Kurt Jaeger , ports@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port maintainer address References: <56B56114.1000401@a1poweruser.com> <20160206063406.GP46096@home.opsec.eu> <56B80099.3070606@a1poweruser.com> In-reply-to: <56B80099.3070606@a1poweruser.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:03:35 -0000 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 ports@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/