On Jun 08, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: >On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:28:22PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> We can try to make it more difficult to harvest email address from mailing >> list archives and posts, but some of that is fairly difficult without >> disrupting the usability of the mailing list. > >Agreed, and as I pointed out last year, it's useless. Spammers have such >an embarrassment of riches when it comes to harvesting addresses that they >really don't need to bother with mailing list mechanisms. And since >I wrote that lengthy explanation, they've come up with a few more, >including one that's really quite clever since it uses social engineering >to convince users to give up not just addresses, but information on >the relationships between them. > >So there is not only zero value in trying to obfuscate addresses, there is >*negative* value since the only people who will actually be impaired in >the least by this are those actually trying to communicate, e.g., those >coming across a message in an archive and trying to write to the author. >Spammers are already so far past this that it's disappeared from their >rear view mirrors.
Agreed. The least we can do is make mailing lists and their archives so much more valuable that it's worth the cost of doing business. -Barry
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