On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:37 -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Summary: Spammers now have so many ways of "harvesting" addresses from so > many systems, and so many ways of exchanging those with each other, that > any email address which is actually used WILL eventually be harvested. > (Where what "eventually" means varies widely, of course, but can be > expected to steadily decrease.) Pretending that address obfuscation > in mailing list [or newsgroup] archives will have any meaningful effect > on this process gives users a false sense of security and has zero > anti-spam value.
Just a little sample: usually I obfuscated addresses in my .signature. Due to the same arguments you are elaborating I used an unobfuscated one for 3 days. Now this address is contaminated and I'm refraining to obfuscating. my 2ยข Siggy -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org+ |53 days until|Open Source in Northern Germany: www.free-it.org| |www.Ubucon.de| tech contact: bsb-at-free-dash-it-dot-de| +-------> ceterum censeo javascriptum esse restrictam <--------+
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