[TriLUG] email obfuscating

[Thunder Bear]

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 18:44, Joey O'Doherty wrote:
> I was browsing the trilug email archives and I noticed that email 
> addresses in the body of a message (eg in a signature) are available in 
> all their glory for spam harvesters.  Is there any hope of obfuscating 
> them automatically in the archives?  Or should they be spam-proofed from 
> the user side anyway?

[vice chair hat off]

IMHO, this should be up to the end users.  I have a bad feeling in my
stomach about altering the body of a message, no matter how good the
intentions are.  Who am I to second guess the intentions of someone who
puts their email address in the body of their message?

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