On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 06:10 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:49:39 -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > > > http://fw07.dmacc.net/rawhide-reports/ (HTML index of all reports) > > > > Feedback welcome. > > Surely you can do something to obfuscate all the e-mail addresses within > the spec file changelog comments. Right now they are even clickable and > easy prey for e-mail address harvesters. Sigh... I suppose that this is a "religious" view that I'm about to butt heads with a few people on, but here's my take on "obscuring" email addresses in archives, etc: It's my feeling that obscuring email addresses in archives is pointless. First of all, you have to convince *everyone* to obscure email addresses. That task in itself is impossible. Even if you could convince everyone to obscure email addresses, it's likely that many people would obscure email addresses in the same way which would make it easy for spammers to harvest the addresses. And then, if you managed to get everyone to obscure email addresses in a manner that would prevent spammers from harvesting them, spammers would just sign up for every email list and create their own archives (if they don't already). Spam is a fact of life that obscuring email addresses won't change. The only effective spam tools that I have found are the "bayesian" filtering tools, although I wish that they were better integrated into the various email servers and clients. Jeff
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