On December 17, 1999 at 19:05, "Dan Harkless" wrote:
> Ah yes. Didn't occur to me that the regexp for a message ID and an email
> address is basically the same (unless you say that an email address is that
> regexp when it's not preceded by "Message-Id: ").
Headers are treated differently. What I am refering to is the
practice of:
In message <asdfasdf@adsfasdfaa>, you wrote:
...
More common with news posts than mail.
> > Another reason is copyright law. If the sender wants to avoid
> > address harvesting, then they should avoid including his/her address
> > in the body, or mangle it himself.
>
> Don't see how B flows from A, but...
This discussion was brought up on the MHonArc mailing list awhile
back. You can probably search for "spam" or "harvesting" at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> to find
the messages.
--ewh
