port maintainer address

[qjail1]

A year ago I was receiving loads of spam email on the maintainer email 
addresses used in the ports makefile. I created bug tickets to change 
the user name part of the email address for all the ports I maintain, 
but some how I missed the qjail2 port. Now that port says its maintained 
by ports at FreeBSD.org and the spam email has stopped.

Since bugzilla uses the port maintainer email address as the way to 
identify the port maintainer, I no longer can post updates to qjail2 
port. This is a two sided coin. On one side [no more spam email] but on 
the other side [blocked from making port updates] to ports I am really 
the maintainer.

Lest look at the big picture. The 
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=qjail2&stype=all
website displays the maintainer email address for each and every port. A 
person doesn't have to be a genius to see that this is one of the places 
where email address are being harvested from.

Why has Freebsd NOT done something to protect their port maintainers 
from spam.

Bugzila is now the preferred way to report bugs in ports. There is no 
longer a need to publicly display the ports maintainer real email 
address on the ports website. The simple solution is to change the html 
code of the ports website to replace every where the maintainer's email 
address is displayed with ports at FreeBSD.org. That way the makefile info 
stays the same and bugzilla works the same. Your just changing what the 
public user and harvesters see.

There are other places where this info can be obtained, such as 
//svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/. This is a very large doorway to all the 
ports maintainer email address. The big picture solution is to NOT carry 
the maintainer email address in the makefile at all. Have it entered 
into a secure maintainers database that only bugzilla has access to.

You get the general picture here. I am sure there are people with a 
better understanding of the internal workings who can develop a better 
concept to prohibit the public from having access the ports maintainer 
real email address. Its time serious thought is given to this problem.

Thanks for letting me stand on my soap box.