Personally, I vote against removing people's email addresses from pages at mail-archive.com. The thing is email is a kind of universal ID, and if I don't see email, it feels like the message being written by anonymous person.

Obfuscating email addresses and other means of fighting email gathering robots (like limiting the number of requests per day from one IP addresses) is a good thing to me, but removing emails is a no-no.

terbpj wrote:
Another thing : when I look at other mailing-lists, I find some lists that completely
obfuscate the mail addresses (like this : [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The address can not
be reconstructed or captured in any way. Instead of that, the mail-archive.com service
is only replacing the @ by a html entity (some &12345; sort of thing). I believe a mail
address harvester can easily work around that protection. So mail archive should try to
erase completely the information about the author and recipients addresses and any
information about mail routing (relays ...) so that no information could be used for
spamming.


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