Re: [PATCH v5] gitweb: redacted e-mail addresses feature.
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- Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
- Date
- Mar 29, 2021, 01:47 UTC
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- <20210329014744.GA2813@dcvr>
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- <pull.910.v5.git.1616817387441.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gitweb extracts content from the Git log and makes it accessible > over HTTP. As a result, e-mail addresses found in commits are > exposed to web crawlers and they may not respect robots.txt. > This can result in unsolicited messages.
> Introduce an 'email-privacy' feature which redacts e-mail addresses > from the generated HTML content
A general reply to the topic: have you considered munging addresses in a way that is still human readable, but obviously obfuscated?
On some other project, I settled on HTML "•" as a replacement for '.' for admins who enable that option. The $USER@$NO_DOT remains as-is for easy identification+recognition of hosts.
I also considered Unicode homographs which can look identical to replacement characters, too; but rejected that idea since it would cause grief for legitimate users who would not notice the homograph when pasting into their mail client.
Anyways, here's the list of candidates I tried:
homograph∂80x24.org homograph@80x24ͺorg homograph@80x24·org homograph@80x24•org homograph＠80x24.org homograph﹫80x24.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ano_Teleia#Similar_symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosed_A
homographⒶ80x24.org homograph@80x24 org homograph@80x24․org homograph@80x24ꓸorg