Re: Removing email addresses from NSE script author field

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>]

I never thought about them being used to fuel SPAM.

Keeping the names and removing the email addresses should be okay
since anyone who is actively maintaining a script will likely be
reading the nmap-dev list.

Perhaps put information about subscribing to or contacting nmap-dev
instead of individual email addresses?

-Jason

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Fyodor <> wrote:
> Hi folks.  I've noticed NSE author fields in several formats,
> including:
>
> p2p-conficker.nse: author = "Ron Bowes (with research from Symantec Security Response)"
>
> http-enum.nse: author = "Ron Bowes <ron () skullsecurity net>, Andrew Orr
>                         <andrew () andreworr ca>, Rob Nicholls
>                         <robert () everythingeverything co uk>"
>
> smb-enum-sessions.nse: author = "Ron Bowes"
>
> Hehe, I just noticed that Ron is in all of my examples.  That fellow
> is prolific :).
>
> I'd say that at least half the scripts contain email addresses which
> are then posted without any anti-spam obfuscation on pages like
> http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-enum.html.  Email addresses also
> tend to go out of date.
>
> So I'm thinking of removing the email addresses from the scripts
> (keeping the associated names, of course).
>
> If you care one way or the other on this, let me know.  If people
> don't want their email addresses removed, I can look into implementing
> the same sort of anti-spam obfuscation used for the seclists.org
> mailing list archives.
>
> Cheers,
> -F
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