On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:06, Tim Connors wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:16:45 -0800: > > On Saturday 11 March 2006 01:00, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able to subscribe > > > as a *poster* as [EMAIL PROTECTED], while receiving > > > the posts as [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my real > > > e-mail address. No e-mail would be sent to the alias, which would > > > be used only to permit posting, but would not be subscribed as > > > a recipient. > > > > Email address munging is considered harmful. It serves only to hinder > > legitimate replies to your email, and utterly ignores the very problem it > > supposedly "resolves." Debian's lists are also open to all posters and > > acccessable via gmane, etc. and those readers do like to post, too. Not > > to mention people replying to list archives. > > > > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > > Unfortunately, that article was written in 1998, and ignores the > reality of the current situation.
The situation that document describes is a constant. If it wasn't, email wouldn't work as a whole. > Zombie machines just aren't being disconnected at the rate they > appear. Get microsoft to fix their bugs (hah!), and the zombie > problem will go away, and spam will become managable again. Your experience must be atypical. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
