On Friday 05 August 2005 07:14, John R Pierce wrote:

> that level of obfuscation is in place here...   it uses -at- instead of @
> and 'dot' instead of '.' ...

... so easily reversible that it's almost not worth the bother.
>
> The original requester was suggesting more obscure obfuscation...

... the problem being that, in order for the list to operate, it's nice (but 
not essential) for posters' addresses to be replyable to ...
>
> I could just disable the archives entirely, or make them subscriber
> private, either option is a click away.

Subscriber private is no safeguard since any potential spammer can trivially 
subscribe. The archives do have a value; I think we should consider carefully 
the consequences of closing access to them.

Personally I find spam irritating but it's easy enough to mentally filter out 
anything which does get past my automatic filters. Thankfully most spams are 
small enough that bandwidth hijacking is not much of an issue.

Regards
Brian Beesley
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