On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 23:09 -0600, mike lojkovic wrote: > Honestly, I've never seen any obfuscated emails in the AUR. Hi, just a random example: "# Maintainer: DuckSoft <realducksoft at gmail dot com> # Co-Maintainer: Mark Wagie <mark dot wagie at tutanota dot com> # Contributor: KokaKiwi <kokakiwi+aur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>" - https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ventoy-bin However, depending on the kind of issue, I usually add a comment or very rarely click "Submit Request" or I report an issue against upstream. Related to issues with packages from official repositories I either send a request to this mailing list, or I report an issue to https://bugs.archlinux.org/ (and/or upstream) or I ask at https://bbs.archlinux.org/ , for example, the coder/person who maintains ventoy upstream is subscribed as "longpanda" to the Arch forums and active, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1948154#p1948154 . Assuming that some obfuscated email addresses should annoy some neurodivergent users (e.g. individuals suffer from different symptoms of dyslexia), it still rarely makes sense to send an email to a {Co- ,}Maintainer or Contributor mentioned by the PKGBUILD. Regards, Ralf PS: I'm way more annoyed by CAPTCHAs. For example, pattern recognizion (AI) of self-driving cars is seemingly able to detect busses, hydrants or traffic lights. To prove that I'm a human being, I have to click on buses, hydrants or traffic lights in several hidden object game pictures, one after the other. This is outdated, long since overrun by technological progress. At best, we will be misused to train self- driving cars, but we don't prove that we are human.
