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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Are the HISTORY files available via the web to be harvested? I thought
only the tarball was available.

On Sun, 2004-20-06 at 10:13 -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> 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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