The archives already show email addresses slightly obfuscated by replacing the '@' with 'at' and the '.' with 'dot' and adding spaces.
-Jason -----Original Message----- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum Todd Bowden wrote: > > Just received an email from an email address that only could of received > my address from this user list. > > My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of > emailing this user-list. Might there be a way to > hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of > publishing them on the user list thread? Uh, it's called a public mailing list. You should never be surprised to receive spam on an email address you use to post to a ML, that's just how the world works. Use a throwaway account if it bothers you. I also suggest SpamAssassin. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
