[aur-general] Perl PKGBUILD review

beest gnubeest at zoho.com
Mon Dec 4 00:29:40 UTC 2017


On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 01:47:51PM -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
> You do not need to obfuscate your email address, alternatively you
> already have older versions that are quite discoverable and contain the
> unobfuscated version. That being said, you used the single most common
> "obfuscation", which AFAIK all spambot scrapers know how to interpret.

In fairness, this has been advised per the AUR wiki page (with
accompanying "user at domain dot tld" examples) for a while now. It's
pretty pointless, but I doubt anyone reading PKGBUILDs will be confused
by it. I tend to follow prior contributor style and keep obfuscations
just for giggles.


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