RE: Mailing lists hiding sender's address?

2004-04-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Do we have any mechanism for hiding or otherwise obfuscating the email address of senders to our list? No. The raw mbox archives show everything, as do the eyebrowse archives. So why not obfuscate? Even if we were to do so, any spammer could subscribe to our lists, and simply harvest sender

RE: Mailing lists hiding sender's address?

2004-04-14 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 05:25 PM 4/14/2004, you wrote: Do we have any mechanism for hiding or otherwise obfuscating the email address of senders to our list? No. The raw mbox archives show everything, as do the eyebrowse archives. Thanks for the info. So why not obfuscate? Even if we were to do so, any spammer

RE: Mailing lists hiding sender's address?

2004-04-14 Thread Noel J. Bergman
By obfuscation I obviously mean a transformation which is easy for a human to decipher but difficult for a machine. I understood. Based upon testimony from Ron Scelson, I believe that the spam industry has grown to about US$1 billion per year. How much effort do you think is being invested if

Re: Mailing lists hiding sender's address?

2004-04-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your comments are welcome. If you pick 10 people and ask them, you come up with at least 20 solutions for spam and 100 ideas. I think email obfuscation is just as useless yet appealing as security thru obscurity if the amount of email obfuscated is high