Re: Contact info on the Meisters page of CG

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.04.2013 13:24, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Francisco Vila <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 2013/4/19 Urs Liska <address@hidden>:
> > > > > I presume the reason emails weren't there was because of the extra spam
> > > > > they could generate.
> > > > - Should email addresses be exposed on lilypond.org?
> > > Would somebody please create a tracker about this?
> > >
> > > The current behaviour is not acceptable. We can't direct potential
> > > contributors to the Meisters page and leave them there without any contact
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Another idea to protect the privacy of the meisters would be to create
> > > 'anonymous' email accounts like address@hidden that forward to a
> > > personal mailbox.
> > If I had my email address clearly exposed in the project page, it
> > would be only tangentially more prone to spam than it currently is. I
> > do not oppose to show it, possibly with a minimal obfuscation such as
> > 'at' 'dot' and the like, which spambots can already decypher anyway.
> I think if we can manage long-running "project aliases" like
> address@hidden, that would be preferable.  We have
> responsibilities shifting not infrequently, and people just _love_ to
> consult documentation that has been outdated for decades and/or that is
> corresponding to the software version they have installed.
>
> Alternatively, point people directly to the mailing lists.
Attached is a patch that adds four alias addresses to the Meisters page.
In order to be applied someone should have created the email addresses
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
address@hidden
and set them up to forward to the real persons.

Urs

0001-Add-contact-info-on-Meisters-page.patch
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