On 10:35:40 05/10/2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You should never ever use your real mailaddress for mailing-lists. > Create a alias for this purpose and only use it for mailing-lists.
Certainly. That's exactly what I have done. > If it gets to spammy, change it. But that doesn't change the fact that there are a lot of people out there who don't have the luxury of disposable email aliases. > Address-harvesting is done in many ways today like subscribing to > mailing-lists to get the addresses, so hiding it in the web-archives > don't save you from spam. No, but in this case the cause and effect relationship very clear. Why make it so easy for the spammers to gain functional email addresses through web archive harvesting? -- Lari Huttunen --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
