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Re: Email Harvesting

Michael Campbell

10/21/2003 9:27:00 PM

Ryan Dlugosz wrote:

> Nikolai Weibull said:
>
>>with parsing emails from usenet. would it be possible for someone
to
>>take care of this?
>
> My $.02 = Attempting to hide all the emails does more harm than
good... it
> really only makes it harder for people to contact you who have a
genuine
> reason to do so (i.e. - with a Ruby question). As far as spam
goes, not
> publishing your email address certainly helps, but the first time a
friend
> or relative sends you an electronic "greeting card" you're sunk.
>
> Perhaps the effort would be better spent on improving anti-spam
systems...

I tend to agree here. Spam sucks and I hate it as much as the next
guy,
but I don't expect (nor do I trust, really), anyone but me to do
something about _my_ spam, and hiding my email address isn't any real

answer.





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