August 16, 2005 08:22 AM Philippe Normand urn:md5:11329 Alinea phil http://base-art.net/Comments/161/ August 16, 2005 08:22 AM <p>I understand this problem has no trivial solution. One could be to avoid direct contact between maintainers and users. All mails would be relayed by Debian which would build a black/white list...</p> bignose http://base-art.net/Comments/160/ August 16, 2005 07:11 AM <p>It's a hard problem to solve. The more you do to obscure an email address, the more barriers you put in the way of legitimate email. It doesn't take much of a barrier before the email address is completely unusable for very useful purposes, and a pain in the rear for most others.</p> <p>In the case of a package maintainer, you want that email address to be as usable as possible.</p>