On 13:44 31 Aug 2002, Jeremy Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Aug 31, Aaron Goldblatt [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: | > an fyi so yall know it's happening, my email address used exclusively | > for mutt-users and mutt-dev has been harvested for spam. i believe i | > posted to mutt-users exactly once, and never to mutt-dev. | | Blame the people that are archiving this list on the web without | obfuscating the addresses.
Feh. If the addresses are mechanically munged, and decodable by humans reading the archive, then the munging can be undone by address harvesters. And since they don;t care about 100% accuracy, they only have to get it mostly right. Personally, I have long considered hiding from spammers a waste of effort. A laudable ideal perhaps, but futile. Install spamassassin or one of the newer Bayesian filters and cease to hide. You will feel freer. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ THE LOST WORLD is based on (so loosely as to re-define "based on" as "with the same title as") Michael Crichton's sequel novel, which introduced us to a second island where dinosaurs were being genetically engineered. - Scott Renshaw on _Jurassic_Park_'s sequel
