On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:36 +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I know that we should all be free to write eachother and whatnot, but 
> for the sake of at least some net-anonymity (and certainly a decreased 
> amount of spam) wouldn't it be a wise suggestion to leave out domain 
> names of list members?
> 
> Most other lists that I belong to do not post email addresses publicly. 
> I don't really care for the most part, but i do happen to get some spam, 
> which just .... well ... sucks.
> 
> http://scriptstest.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-embedded-per-month.xml
> 
> The above site was discovered only while googling the first half of my 
> username, and I doubt that anyone who writes crawl-engines for data 
> mining purposes would _not_ think to replace [at] with @ when adding to 
> the list of spamming targets.

http://archives.gentoo.org/stats

Chris, That's my doing.. How would you prefer that the email addresses
be obscured? btw there are tons of other places where it's archived
plain/text.. But if you have a preferred method of obscuring then just
yell. I/we can't omit all of the domain.. So we have to use some sorta
separator.


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Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo Linux

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