On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 15:38 -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: > --On Friday, February 27, 2009 13:46 -0500 Adam Tauno Williams > <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And posting these here in > > plain text unobfusticated will have no measurable effect on the amount > > of SPAM I receive. I've been using these addresses for years [a > > decade?] go ahead and google them > My address has been on the net since 1989 and Google tells me it is > on 729 web pages. I know for a fact that there are people here who > get a lot more spam than I do, because I follow up on spam reports. > Web harvesting certainly exists but I don't like going into hiding. It exists but it is by no means the primary source of SPAM; there has been some research on how to attract SPAM and the clear far and away winner is to sign up / register with a consumer products or services company. The last study I read indicated that doing so produced 50x more SPAM than any other action. Using a public e-mail list produced essentially none. > The compromise with " at " sounds pretty good though. No argument. Fine with me. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
