Hey,
On 2020/01/20 22:25, teor wrote:
- do some minimal validation on the email field, that makes sure it looks like an email address. (Or don't, so operators can obfuscate their addresses from spammers.)
Is the kind of obfuscation, we see in use today, for the `ContactInfo`-field useful against spammers at all? My intuition says no, but it might be wrong. I personally don't believe I've received more unwanted email by not obfuscating my email address on my relays.
I think the suggestion in our man-page with generating a new email address for the relay contact information might be a better option for everybody if this is a concern to the operator.
The RIPE database allows me to list the email addresses associated with various objects, if I pass some flags to their whois server, so I would assume we could add a requirement that a relay operator should use something that structurally resembles an email address at the very least.
At some point in a distant future, we could even require that the email addresses are "validated" by having some service sending an email to the operator of a new relay and have them click on some link to a validation service if we think that is useful to have.
All the best, Alex.