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citral

Member

Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 87

Spamming PKGBUILDs

I hope I'm not hijacking the thread too much, but in the trend of dealing with spam, it would also be nice if AUR was more spam-proof.

Right now google crawls all the PKGBUILDS (claiming ~19.500 hits) and gives spambots a whole bunch of free e-mail addys from the "Contributor: " and "Maintainer: " lines.

I'd rather not start obfuscating my email address in PKGBUILDS I post, because it feels like too harsh of a countermeasure. However, perhaps AUR could mangle email addresses when it gives webaccess to a PKGBUILD?

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Spamming PKGBUILDs

I hope I'm not hijacking the thread too much, but in the trend of dealing with spam, it would also be nice if AUR was more spam-proof.

Right now google crawls all the PKGBUILDS (claiming ~19.500 hits) and gives spambots a whole bunch of free e-mail addys from the "Contributor: " and "Maintainer: " lines.

I'd rather not start obfuscating my email address in PKGBUILDS I post, because it feels like too harsh of a countermeasure. However, perhaps AUR could mangle email addresses when it gives webaccess to a PKGBUILD?

read the thread buddy we're talking about wiki spam not email spam.

Sander

Member

Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 138

Re: Spamming PKGBUILDs

I hope I'm not hijacking the thread too much, but in the trend of dealing with spam, it would also be nice if AUR was more spam-proof.

Right now google crawls all the PKGBUILDS (claiming ~19.500 hits) and gives spambots a whole bunch of free e-mail addys from the "Contributor: " and "Maintainer: " lines.

I'd rather not start obfuscating my email address in PKGBUILDS I post, because it feels like too harsh of a countermeasure. However, perhaps AUR could mangle email addresses when it gives webaccess to a PKGBUILD?

read the thread buddy we're talking about wiki spam not email spam.

Sounds to me like this issue should be taken care of as well, though. Might be interesting to start a separate thread.

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