On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when that button is pressed. The problem with this design, of course, > is that it exposes the email in a place where spammers can easily find
Yes, that is life in the 200x's. Every major package management system has this feature. Deal with it & tune your filters. > it. This is really of concern mostly because we expect kids to create > and maintain activities eventually as well. Of course, assuming the No one's forcing the kids to provide email addresses. We're just strongly suggesting that activities which are "maintained" by someone (either by OLPC for G1G1 or by countries for their deployments) have working addresses. Also, there's nothing saying that this has to be a particular person's email address. It could be a list, or a mailinator account, or pass through an anonymizer or something else. > kids have an email account at all to provide, there's surely no way to > prevent them from being spammed at all...should the field be optional? > optional unless under contract? It is optional, but its presence should be noted as one of the "positive factors" when evaluating whether an activity you wish to include in your deployment is "high quality". --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
