Le Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:16:53PM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > I personally agree. I don't bother munging my email address > at all anymore, as I don't think it helps a great deal in > the mid to long term, and it certainly detracts from the > usefulness of an address. However if an upstream author of a > package wishes to conceal their address, I think we should > honour that.
Hi all, I would like to remind you of a Windows virus which hit Debian users badly in the past. From infected machines, it was crawling web archives of Debian lists (maybe not on l.d.o), and extracting email adresses for sending megaoctets of emails containing a 300 Ko .exe file. Bandwidth was not so great at this time so even people on DSL were quite annoyed. Very surprisingly, it was quickly discovered that the virus was specifically avoiding the adresses in which the "nospam" keyword was found, were they legitimate or not. This example shows us that we should not look down on the people who use primitive address obsfucation techniques, they may have very good reason for. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
