On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:09:48 -0700, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
2012/3/17 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com
Sure. I think there is a test repository somewhere precisely for that.
Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear. In this case I would like to get on the list. I hope it won't be a problem that my userinfo contains an e-mail address encoded for human use against spambots.
I never get the need to obfuscate USERINFO emails like that.
Even ignoring how good spamfilters are today.
Looking at my spam folder, I have absolutely NO spam emails coming into mediawiki@*, which I have listed in complete plain text in my USERINFO, used in the @author line of some extensions, and iirc I even have some extensions in public use that include it inside a mailto: in the credits that show up on Special:Version.
On the other hand, mediawiki-bugs@* accounts for a decent amount of e-mails in my spam folder.
So, people obfuscate their USERINFO in ways that any half decent bot programmer could get around but no-one even bothers scanning. While the moment they try to post a bug they expose their e-mail in a place that we know bots do look through.