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On 2015-04-10 06:31, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> 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.

While there are precedents for email addresses treated as private 
information, the contexts for those precedents do not apply.  The email 
address stored in the port's maintainer information is a published point 
of contact.  It is, by definition, public information and necessarily 
so.  Public is public--you don't get to control who uses that information.

If you want to curtail spam to your maintainer address, use a gmail 
account.  Google's spam filters are very good at filtering out the 
black- and grey-hat spam that gets sent to maintainer addresses.