Mark Stosberg wrote:
Undoubtedly a couple of valid points. You are right, there is no clear answer, valid for all situations. And adding 'NOSPAM' is hopefully an efficient method.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.
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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.
I've had a great experience with TMDA filtering nearly 100% of these ( http://www.tmda.net/ ). ... and it doesn't address the issue at its core-- preventing the e-mails from being sent in the first place.Very true. All too many people post their addresses everywhere, making themselves more or less dependent on various filtering software and/or services.
Personally I have replaced all mailto links on web sites with links to contact forms. I have also started to use a 'noreply' address (which normally is forwarded to /dev/null) when posting to mailing lists and Usenet groups where there is a big risk for harvesting by the spam bots. Instead I provide a contact form link like the one below. Unfortunately this is not (yet) common practice. :)
/ Gunnar
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