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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Spam Proofing . . .
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:05:13 -0700

For all of the developers who are tired of receiving porn, pharmaceutical and
other notices, I would like to change The Source Mage Developers [0] Wiki
page, modifying the e-mail addresses so they are not easy for spammers to
scavenge. If you want to keep receiving those notices, just let me know and
I'll leave your e-mail address alone.

The reason I am posting this is because we will lose the ability to just
click
on an e-mail address and have a new e-mail message pop open with the e-mail
address already entered in the To: field. Personally, I'm okay with manually
typing to reduce the spam.

It seems we have two ways of doing it: 1) the entire e-mail address as one
long word with the @ and the . converted to something like_AT_ and _DOT_ (as
Andrew as done for his e-mail addresses -- I followed his lead), or 2) each
piece separated by a space. The advantage of using method 1 is that we can
still do the instant e-mail message trick, but we will have to convert the
_AT_ and _DOT_ (or whatever) back to their appropriate symbols. The
advantage of using method number 2 is we can do a direct copy and paste and
remove the spaces.

Unless there is a better way that I have not thought of, I think converting
all the e-mail addresses to the method 1 format is what I will do. Let me
know.

Also, I'm not sure about this, should Jabber addresses be converted also, or
are they resistant to spam?

[0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=The+Source+Mage+Developers

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