On May 31, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Consider that the e-mail lists are public and that there are many
services that tap into the archives to allow viewing/searching them.
Services could also simply subscribe to the lists and harvest
messages that way as well.
Hiding your e-mail address to avoid spam is like not publishing your
IP address to avoid security vulnerabilities. Security through
obscurity doesn't work (for long).
Erik
I disagree. Filtering archive emails through a simple script along the
lines of "s/[EMAIL PROTECTED]//g" goes a long way in preventing spam. I am doing
it on
all objectstyle.org mailing lists (cayenne, woproject), and it didn't
cause any inconveneince so far... It is not security through
obscurity, it
is just a simple and practical solution.
But again, consider the services that tap into the lists by
subscribing to it rather than using the archives. Your e-mail
address will end up elsewhere regardless of what happens on the
Apache side of things. Right?
Erik
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