On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 11:33:00 AM +1000, Terry
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I missed that. There are two tabs on the Mail Reader - "Standard
> Display" and "Raw Display". The first is bad enough.
>
> Why publish any of this information?
1) Because there are legitimate uses which may save time and reduce
future list traffic
2005: Jon says "thanks for your help, I will modify your OOo macro
to do what I need"
2006: Jim must do the same thing, finds the macro mentioned in the
archive, can directly ask Jon "may I have a copy please?"
The possibility to do this saved me several times
2) Because you can publish nothing and it could still be useless to
reduce spam. All a spammer needs to do to prevent such measures
is... subscribe just like you and me :-) . Or, even if no header is
published at all, harvest addresses from the attribution line in
the message BODY! "On sun, Sep 03...tjcoffs-... wrote" (*)
Or do a lot of other things which are left as exercise for the
reader.
(*) In some email clients, the attribution line may be modified to not
show the email addresses. Most people don't do it because they just
not realize it's there and by being there gives addresses to spammers.
Some do it to show how careful they are to not help spammers.
Others, like me, don't bother because addresses are harvested anyway
in other ways.
Ciao,
Marco
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Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 5 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination
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