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[Darth Oosha]

The Crow's Nest review pages have email addresses posted for the author of each level. Should DF-21's Download pages do the same thing? Most of the level .txt files include addresses, but that adds to the problem, since a lot of the authors have changed addresses since then.

TACC apparently has a script that lets users email authors without revealing their addresses. That makes sense for stopping spambots, but I'm not sure it's ideal, since you don't know whether the address is recently verified or just copied from a 13-year-old text file. Maybe you could display images of the addresses? I'm not sure what the best implementation would be.

(Also, this is another thing that a DF wiki might be good for.)

[Fenwar]

I think if someone really wants to contact an author, they can get any relevant address from the zip themselves, and if that fails (so many .edus) then they have DF-21 and quite possibly Google. It's amazing who'll surface when people ask... (*coughBanecough*)

(Come to think of it my own showcases probably have dead email addresses in them too...)

But it's up to the author to want to be contacted, too. I'd prefer not to take the inclusion of an email address in a zipfile as consent to make it available via a website.

[Burning Gundam]

Yeah, my original posted email is a dud (Well, technically still in use as my MSN chat account).

But since no one seems to have a reason to contact me from around here, I just never bothered to update it.

I agree with Fenwar on this one

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[Darth Oosha]

I don't think the Google argument really works when pseudonymous peoples' contact information is exactly the sort of thing that doesn't tend to stay on the internet very long when nobody's keeping track of it, but okay.