email mangling (Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls cmp.c extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c util.c

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 24 19:21:36 UTC 2006


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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