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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> 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.

I prefere plan #1. We should have thought of this sooner. ;)
 
> Also, I'm not sure about this, should Jabber addresses be converted also, or
> 
> are they resistant to spam?

You have to approve them before they can send you messages, but some use 
Yahoo!,
ICQ, etc. on there, which don't always require authentication. 

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

-sandalle

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