[DAS] emai addresses and the das registry

Felix Kokocinski fsk at sanger.ac.uk
Mon Jan 12 17:03:53 UTC 2009


Hi Jonathan,

I believe this would be a good thing and should be applied for ALL sources.
You could display the name of the maintainer on the showdetails page, so 
people know who they are contacting, but then just use a form for email 
contact, without displaying the address.

   Cheers, Felix.


Jonathan Warren wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Due to security and spam considerations:
> 
> I was wondering what DAS users would think of www.dasregistry.org asking
> people if they want their email addresses made public as a contact for
> their sources? If people say no - then the registry would for example:
> set the maintainer field of the source to a link back to the registry,
> which would be a submission form where people could indirectly email the
> source maintainer? Thus avoiding anyone other than the registry needing
> to know the maintainers real email address?
> 
> Any opinions or recommendations for how this could be done are welcomed.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jonathan.
> 
> 
> 


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