Re: How do we feel about conferences scraping addresses from the IETF?

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On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 09:47:06AM +0000, lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Stripping email addresses from public mailing list archives is considered best practice these days.

No, it's not.  It's security theater deployed by horribly ignorant people
who haven't bothered to study spammer techniques or read analysis done
by people who have.

The *only* people impeded by this are legitimate users.  It has no effect
on spammer operations whatsoever.

---rsk




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