From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 10:22:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA7A106566B; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from opti.dougb.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E27714F0AC; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5007DFF9.7070605@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:22:49 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120624 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bcr@FreeBSD.org References: <201207190912.q6J9CMr0062740@svn.freebsd.org> <5007D0AA.2000304@FreeBSD.org> <5007DBEA.30406@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5007DBEA.30406@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, joel@FreeBSD.org, Niclas Zeising Subject: Re: svn commit: r39233 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:22:50 -0000 On 07/19/2012 03:05, Benedict Reuschling wrote: > Am 19.07.12 11:17, schrieb Doug Barton: >> On 07/19/2012 02:12, Niclas Zeising wrote: >>> Suggested by: Roger Magana > >> Please don't obscure e-mail addresses in commit messages. It does >> nothing to confuse the spammers, but it does make it more difficult to >> see who has contributed what over the years; not to mention copying and >> pasting addresses into e-mails for responding to those contributors. > > I'm a bit surprised by this. I'm not sure why, since you've been around long enough to have seen me ask people not to do it half a dozen times at least. :) I don't do it every time obviously, just periodically. > I've been doing this email-obscuring thing > as long as I'm with the project. My mentor did it also, and as far as I > can see it is done virtually by everyone, That's not even close to true. > We probably should discuss this on a project level if there are reasons > not to do it (like you said, that spammers might not be driven away by > it) It isn't "might." It's been true since day 1 that there are no patterns which are recognizable by humans that the spammers cannot trivially harvest. All obscuring games do is make people feel better, and in our case reduce the amount of useful information. > and find other (read: better) ways to balance the attribution of > contributors in commits and not making them spam-targets at the same time. There isn't one. If you publish an e-mail address on the Internet, it will get harvested. Doug -- Change is hard.