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On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 06:30 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
It doesn't do a complete job of obscuring email addresses in archived
email.
[snip]
2. Mailmain doesn't obscure email addresses in the body, so if this
message
were archived, then [EMAIL PROTECTED]
would
appear in the archive and be accessible to so-called harvesters of
email
addresses.
So be it. IMHO, if an email address is in the message body, it
*should* be archived. It is easy for a user to render their email
address relatively unrecognizable to harvesters if they so desire
(indeed, this has been a common practice for years).
However, removing email addresses from lines such as
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:" is safe, and as a writer
to
numerous lists, my intended audience is those subscribed to the list;
if
archival copies are less complete that's fine by me. If I want someone
to
write direct to me, I will spell out the email address.
Yowzer. I'm *very* against outright deletion of addresses. If you
want to do this, go ahead and write your own patch for it, but please
don't put this in the public release.
Many people go to extraordinary lengths to reduce spam; the more
mailing-list
software does to help the better for all of is.
- -1
Chris Hedemark .. Hillsborough, NC .. http://yonderway.com
Homeland Security begins at home; support your Second Amendment.
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