m ike wrote: > Attribution lost (however, I happen to know I wrote it) > > [Replacing an email address with an md5sum hash] makes responding to > > the poster impossible. > > you think people maintain email addresses for ever?
Send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now send one to 8b7904fa6644bb31c64cbcdc56e4b185451b72d2 Which one will work? Does it matter that some emails change over time? Some email addresses are for life. You have a choice: an email address that may work, or one that has no chance at all of ever working. Also, as another data point, From: and From_ addresses are very easy to forge. So someone that does not want to be reached need not use a valid From:, From_, or Reply-To:. Personally, I accept that some archives will munge email addresses into user (at) domain (dot) tld dues to address harvesters. I don't necessarily like it, but I do accept it. The information is still there. Replacing with a hash of anytype makes the information useless. The only way you can get it is if you already have it. This is the way encrypted passwords work. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
