[TriLUG] email obfuscating
John Broome
trilug at jbroome.org
Tue Aug 13 09:42:30 EDT 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Portzer" <jeremyp at pobox.com>
> On 12 Aug 2002, Thunder Bear wrote:
>
> > 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.
[snip]
> I agree with Chris. Many people include obfuscated email addresses in
> their signatures instead of the real address, so I would suggest you do
> that if you're really concerned. Personally I don't use a signature at
> all, so it's not a problem. :-)
I'll add a "me three" to this. If someone is so horrible afraid of ending
up on a spam list they should mung their own email address and signatures.
Or set up a dedicated mail account for that purpose.
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