Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:54:28 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email mangling (Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls cmp.c extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c util.c Message-ID: <20060324175428.GH35129@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <200603241225.40916.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200603241638.k2OGc2qt094713@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060324084458.A88774@xorpc.icir.org> <200603241225.40916.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote this message on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:25 -0500:
> On Friday 24 March 2006 11:44, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:38:02PM +0000, John Baldwin wrote:
> > ...
> > > Submitted by: Andrzej Tobola ato at iem dot pw dot edu dot pl
> >
> > i understand that this is an attempt to prevent email harvesting,
> > but don't you think that such programs will be smart enough
> > to recognize sequences of 'foo at bar dot baz' and convert
> > back to regular email addresses ? :)
>
> Yes. I just copied this behavior from other folks and have been doing
> it for probably years now. If someone wants to come up with a standard
> (no obfuscation, obfuscation using algo X, etc.) I'm all for it.
After a user complained about me putting his email address in a
commit message, I have adopted the policy of just using the person's
name.. Yes, email adresses are the internet's unique ID, but, the
name is still unique enough for most things..
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