On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Mark Stosberg wrote: > > I didn't want to just "XXXX" out the domain name, because > > I wanted people to be able to contact the original authors of messages. > > Do the subscribers agree with you on that?
That's a good question, and I must admit I don't fully know the answer in this case. > If you run a mailing list, the subscribers can use the info on the email > messages to contact *each other*. But are there typically strong enough > reasons to provide email addresses in a publicly available list archive? > In my opinion, considering the aggressive spammers: No! It's not such a clear answer for me. I use a lot of technical mailing lists. I try to be a "good citizen" and search archives of old messages before I ask on the list. I would say that that most of the time I actually find the answer in a previous discussion and don't need to post. Sometimes I find someone who has had the exact same problem I'm having, but never got a response at the time. In those cases, I find it useful to contact the person directly and see if they've found a solution since then. In those cases, it's nice to be able to figure out their e-mail address. It's frustrating to have the experience when I feel like I'm one step away from someone who can answer my question, and I can't contact them. It's also frustrating because it's hard to link recieiving spam to the websites where the addressses were initially scraped. If we knew that information, I think a lot more would happen to make e-mail harvesting on websites hard. I think I get about 50 spams a day now. Lately, I've had a great experience with TMDA filtering nearly 100% of these ( http://www.tmda.net/ ). However, it's hardly at a point were I feel I can recommend it to Windows and Mac users, and it doesn't address the issue at its core-- preventing the e-mails from being sent in the first place. Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-USERS
