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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:21:19 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com>
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:  <200603241421.21525.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060324183303.GA26205@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200603241638.k2OGc2qt094713@repoman.freebsd.org> <44243867.4090501@sippysoft.com> <20060324183303.GA26205@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Friday 24 March 2006 01:33 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:20:23AM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > 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 ? :)
> >
> > Perhaps we have to change policy to put only contributor's name,
> > not email, into the commit message.
>
> No thanks, it makes it impossible to contact them later on when all
> other context is lost.

Let's give everyone UUID with uuidgen(1) and make a secure database to 
map them.  Just kidding... :-)

I agree with Kris.

JK



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