Re: [PATCH v5] gitweb: redacted e-mail addresses feature.
From: Eric Wong <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-29 01:48:19
Georgios Kontaxis via GitGitGadget [off-list ref] 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