[Vim-l] Email addresses in tips

[Benjamin Fritz]

What about removing the name entirely?  I thought, since this is a wiki,
that attributing any single tip to a person is a daunting task (since
anybody can and should change it at any time).  If we really want to clean
up all the imported tips, we'll need to do some heavy modifications to some
of them, and people will be adding and deleting content all the time.  This
is especially true for when we merge two (or more!) imported tips together.
 The final product is the result of several original contributers (the
original post and all the comments) as well as the effort put in by the
person doing the merge.  If you're changing the tip template anyway, why not
just keep it closer to the intent of the wiki?  The link to the original tip
will (I assume) still remain if anybody is interested in its origins.

On 10/17/07, Sebastian Menge <s.menge at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:58:37 +1000 schrieb John Beckett:
>
> > I'm wondering about the 'Author' field in the {{Tip}} information line.
> > An ugly example:
> >  http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip193
>
> Right, thats ugly, because it's double obfuscated.
>
> > Looking at a few of the new tips (I didn't check many), I didn't see
> > anyone posting their email address, obfuscated or not. I know the
> > addresses are visible on vim.org, but in these dangerous times, I don't
> > see why we should show them, even if obfuscated. I'm not suggesting we
> > should ban addresses - just remove them from the old imported tips.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> I don't see why: simple obfuscation is good enough for harvesters (I read
> about
> it at the FAQ of http://gmane.org).
>
> But if you want to do it, why not ... So I see no pros and no cons ...
>
> Seb
>
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