On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Arnold Krille wrote: >> Its just one way to reduce spam. I do think list managers should >> protect thier users. This one doesn't? > We don't talk about "the" list archive. As maintainer of the "official" archive, we do hide email addresses in the archives - please see latest archives for examples at: http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2005/03/ This has been in place already for at least 3-5 years -- I cannot remember the exact date when we started email address hiding. I've also sent requests to the list asking all unofficial archive maintainers to take the spam issue into account. > You went out to the public ;-) install and train spamassasin/bogofilter and > don't worry about spam any more. And don't buy the pills you get offered... I used my previous address for +10 years and it is now getting 200-400 spams a day. Sure I can filter it, but looking for false-positives is just impossible with this much spam coming in. So I've now gone through with the painful operation of changing my address, and now get a lot less spam (actually almost none). I know I won't be spam free forever, but any steps to slow down the spam flood is _very_ welcome. Hiding addresses in openly available archives is one easy step to take - less spam to filter, everybody wins. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
