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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

This is only a partial solution, because we also publish uncompressed 
HISTORY files on codex, and they have every developer's email of 
course... So may I suggest changing rules for writing HISTORY files too?

Jason Flatt wrote:

> 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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