Re: Poll: Should mhonarc.org mail archives hide mail addresses

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nobody would be happier than me if there was a practicable way to make 
the spammers go away. Since there isn't, avoiding public display of 
email addresses is to me the most natural way to prevent the 
harassment. An open communication can still - and should - be 
facilitated. Personally I have started to publish links to contact 
forms, which is almost as convenient as mailto-links.

As regards the mhonarc.org archives, I advocate that the addresses are 
hidden or, if possible, effectively obfuscated.

So, why can't people who don't like spam just post from bogus 
addresses? Well, they can. But personally I strongly dislike all 
arrangements where you need to actively opt out in order to not being 
targeted with bulk emails. To me, the principally right route is to 
_encourage_ people to make themselves contactable, rather than feeding 
the spammers databases with their addresses by default.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl