Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file
On 25-Sep-07, 04:13 (CDT), Jon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org> wrote:
> The goal is not withold valid contact information, it is to impede
> automatic email-harvesting software. So far we haven't discussed munging
> addresses beyond human recognition, just sufficiently to impede work on
> machine-parsing the copyright file (which I have otherwise heard nothing
> about) as a by-product.
I'd bet at least a small sum of money that "not beyond human
recognition" and "impede machine parsing" are, at this point,
non-intersecting sets. It's not even like they have to get it right on
the first try -- just generate a bunch of differnt "unmunges", and try
them. Or, more accurately, sell them to losers.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
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