From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 13:44:06 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2AB54327; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "ma.sdf.org", Issuer "ma.sdf.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04BEAA1D; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ma.sdf.org (IDENT:U2FsdGVkX1+8D/7ArmsjfQeyEjRpdTKz1OxgvCGbwJw@ma.sdf.org [192.94.73.31]) by sdf.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id t3ADhvGM022768; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:43:57 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:43:57 -0500 From: cpet To: Ernie Luzar Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website In-Reply-To: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: cpet@sdf.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.1 Cc: FreeBSD Questions , owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:44:06 -0000 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.