On 12 Jul 2005 at 16:01, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Jul 12, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Simon Troup wrote: > > >> I agree that this is silly. When you send an email to this list you > >> are going to sometimes have an email forwarded to an offlist > >> member. You are going to be quoted with attribution in other > >> emails, perhaps to other lists. It's part of the expected actions > >> to be taken with an email, and these are not illegal as far as I'm > >> aware. > > > > ... apart from the fact that when you join it says ... > > > > "This is a private list, which means that the list of members is > > not available to non-members." > > > > ... which I would have thought covered _not_ having my email address > > readily available on another site. > > > > And that is indeed the case. Emails ARE stripped out.
As text. They are still presented in a format that a sufficiently sophisticated machine could read. And you can bet that spam harvesters exist that can read graphical email addresses. If it were not the case, then you wouldn't see obfuscated graphics on sites like Yahoo and Geektools. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
