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[Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>]

I'm not saying it SHOULD be obfuscated. I'm replying to Jeff's comment that we shouldn't provide any means of public contact for server administrators, due to concerns they will be spammed.

 On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
> Correct, nor should there be on the website.  The last thing we need is someone trolling for our email addresses so they can spam us.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Alex Hanselka <alex AT opennicproject.org> wrote:

That is very true. I would like to point out that it should have been obvious that this is a public, google-able list when you signed up.  We could obfuscate addresses if it is the will of the people, I think :)

On Feb 6, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com> wrote:

> If getting spammed is a concern, I'd mention that all participant's email addresses are publicly visible and not obfuscated in any way.
> If someone wanted to spam server admins, they could just collect the information from there.
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> https://lists.opennicproject.org/arc/discuss
> https://lists.opennicproject.org/lists
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> Granted, this is not ALL the lists, but pretty much all the server admins are on the discuss list.
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> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
> Correct, nor should there be on the website.  The last thing we need is someone trolling for our email addresses so they can spam us.
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> However... at some point we may set up a method where admin info can be read from the ldap server.  More than likely the IRC names will correspond with the usernames selected in ldap, so the info could be grabbed as needed.
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> Generally, however, if you need to know who admins a server, ask in IRC.  Julian, brianko, or myself are usually around to look it up.
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> On 02/06/2013 09:15 PM, Jamyn Shanley wrote:
>> It's good information to have, but there are no email contacts listed in any of the results.
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>> [...]
>> bbs: IRC=texnofobix
>> dyn: IRC=texnofobix
>> free: IRC=julian
>> fur: IRC=ph3-der-loewe
>> geek: IRC=julian
>> gopher: IRC=brianko
>> indy: IRC=julian
>> ing: IRC=timgws
>> micro: IRC=timgws
>> neo: IRC=neo
>> null: IRC=julian
>> oss: IRC=shdwdrgn
>> oz: ADMIN=Martin_C
>> parody: IRC=shdwdrgn
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>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
>> If you're comfortable with the command line, you can also use this...
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>> # dig +short TXT ns2.opennic.glue
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>> It also works for TLDs...
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>> # dig +short TXT free.opennic.glue
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>> On 02/06/2013 05:18 PM, Jamyn Shanley wrote:
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>> > Speaking of contact, may I suggest
>>                   that all TLD operators get an alias or forwarder for
>>                   their space as part of the process? Ex:
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>> oz AT tld.opennicproject.org <mailto:oz AT tld.opennicproject.org>
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>>                 > ... and then the
>> tld.opennicproject.org
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>> <http://tld.opennicproject.org>
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>>                 can list all available TLDs with contact information as
>>                 well. Or whatever works for the group... but this way,
>>                 there's a quick, easy, consistent, and memorable way to
>>                 contact any operator, even if their infrastructure is
>>                 down or you can't remember their gmail address off the
>>                 top of your head..
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