I am not an expert on statistics, but my feeling is that once your email has already made it to one one of the spammers specials - "DVD containing one billon emails for $100" - then having your email (even if it is obfuscated) on more public mail/nntp/whatever archives isn't really going to make a lot of difference.
I still do obfuscate my email address in my .signature when I use my work account, but I have to admit it probably doesn't make a heck of difference now. Basically if you are seeing 30 spams or say a day (which is what I max out on) your address has probably already penetrated the spam market for addresses to saturation level. (Anybody get more than 50 spams to a single email address on average?) Regards, Martin On 5/31/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am strongly in favour of all mailing lists such as SLUG being subscriber only, and definitely not being made available to (wo)man+dog. Terry Collins wrote: > Mary Gardiner wrote: >> Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on >> gmane.org for both posting and reading. > > Just what I really want. Another source of email addresses for spammers > to pillage. > > Who was responsible for this bright idea? > If you are goingto start passing out the slug list in bulk to spammers, > I would like all address at woa-com-au pulled, please. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
-- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
