obfuscated email addresses in CVS

Philip M. Gollucci pgollucci at p6m7g8.com
Fri May 8 16:10:49 UTC 2009


Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> It has recently come to my attention that some commiters obfuscate
> email addresses in the CVS logs, e.g:
> Submitted by: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze AT bsdforen.de> (maintainer)
> 
> Is this a policy? I prefer for my email address not to be obfuscated:
> Submitted by: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> (maintainer)
> 
> I'm convinced that SPAM bots can read these obfuscated email
> addresses without problems anyway. So why bother making email less
> simple for every one?
+1

I completely agree.

Besides your e-mails are already public on a large number of forums if you are
a committer, maintainer, or pr submitter.


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