Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:43:57 -0500 From: cpet <cpet@sdf.org> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <c9835f4031734e8b8822fbf10c1d1f8c@sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com>
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On 2015-04-10 08:31, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Hello list; > > I maintain 4 ports and within the last 6 months I have started > receiving large amounts of spam on the ports maintainer email address. > Last week I went through the process of changing the maintainers email > addresses and within 3 days I started receiving spam on the new email > addresses. > > The http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ website is being harvested for email > addresses. > > We all have personally experienced spam email. Now the volunteers who > create and maintain the ports in the Freebsd ports collection are > being targeted with spam. > > In todays world of spam emails containing payloads of bots, viruses > and mullware, I think its past time for www.freebsd.org/ports/ to stop > displaying any email address at all. > > I release this is only a simple solution targeted at the script > kiddies. > Any seriously harvester could always download the complete ports tree > source and harvest the maintainer email address from the ports > Makefile. > > To address this problem in a way to make it totally go away, a new way > of handling the ports maintainers email address in the ports system is > fast becoming a priority. > > Separation of the maintainers email address from the ports Makefile is > the ultimate solution. People on the ports team who know the behind > scenes workings of the port system are far better suited to develop a > new method of accomplishing this. > > Lets look at this in a different way. I believe that email address are > consitered as private personal information and covered under the > privacy information U.S. law which says they can not be exposed to the > public. > > This post is intended to generate discussion and shine light on what > may be a legal oversight by the ports team. > > > Thank you in advance for you interest and comments. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Seriously ? People like you are the reason why I am nagged with a message about cookies.
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