SPAM and CHANGES [was: the wheel of httpd-dev]

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@apache.org>]

Here is a simple suggestion; does anyone mind if I run CHANGES in 1.3,
2.0 and 2.1 through the following filter?

perl -e "while(<stdin>){s#(<[^ @>]*)@([^ @>]*>)#$1 $2#g;print $_;}" 

instead of [William Rowe <wr...@apache.org>] I end up with something
like [William Rowe <wrowe apache.org>]

Anyone can figure this out, but the bots won't.  Specific harvesting isn't
prevented, but the general harvesting, that most of us are victims of, would be.

Bill

At 11:20 AM 11/11/2003, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:14:35PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
>> 3). Contributions
>> 
>> I don't have numbers to support my clause, but I have a strong feeling
>> that nowadays we see a much smaller number of posts with contributions
>> from non-developers
>
>More facetious than anything else, I'm going to hijack this part
>to make a small suggestion; give non-committers the option of 
>not having their e-mail in the CHANGES/STATUS files, or at least
>of having them obfuscated in some fashion.
>
>The ammount of spam I get due to the httpd CHANGES file is simply
>unreal, most of it nonsense - with the forged from headers of other
>users of this list. 
>
>That's about the only thing that ever makes me think twice about
>posting a patch/contrib. 
>
>PS. This is not a complaint, it's my own silly fault for never 
>remembering to ask someone about this. 
>
>-- 
>Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp@stdlib.net

Re: SPAM and CHANGES [was: the wheel of httpd-dev]

[Lars Eilebrecht <la...@hyperreal.org>]

According to William A. Rowe, Jr.:

> Here is a simple suggestion; does anyone mind if I run CHANGES in 1.3,
> 2.0 and 2.1 through the following filter?
> 
> perl -e "while(<stdin>){s#(<[^ @>]*)@([^ @>]*>)#$1 $2#g;print $_;}" 

+1


ciao...
-- 
Lars Eilebrecht            - Never put off until tomorrow what you can
lars@hyperreal.org          - do the day after tomorrow. (Mark Twain)

Re: SPAM and CHANGES [was: the wheel of httpd-dev]

[Jeff Trawick <tr...@attglobal.net>]

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

> instead of [William Rowe <wr...@apache.org>] I end up with something
> like [William Rowe <wrowe apache.org>]

fine with me if you remove the @ sign by whatever mechanism...  cvs diff can 
help you whether or not that one-liner did the trick