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Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Mon Feb 8 06:30:50 UTC 2016


Hi!

> I ask WHY is the 
> Freebsd ports system using a very old methodology that was designed over 
> 20 years ago, before the birth of spam.

There was spam, even more than 20 years ago.

> The majority of customer 
> websites and programming development websites all have protected their 
> user email addresses, WHY NOT FREEBSD?

Maybe because it's not a big problem in general ? It's annoying etc,
but not a big problem ?

> It's way past the time that this problem gets the attention it deserves.

If you have code and ideas on how to handle this, put in a problem
report in bugs.freebsd.org. If some activist can be found to fight
this cause, it will probably be solved.

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