[TriLUG] email obfuscating

[John Broome]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Portzer" <jeremyp at pobox.com>
> On 12 Aug 2002, Thunder Bear wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 18:44, Joey O'Doherty wrote:
> > > I was browsing the trilug email archives and I noticed that email
> > > addresses in the body of a message (eg in a signature) are available
in
> > > all their glory for spam harvesters.  Is there any hope of obfuscating
> > > them automatically in the archives?  Or should they be spam-proofed
from
> > > the user side anyway?
> >
> > [vice chair hat off]
> >
> > IMHO, this should be up to the end users.  I have a bad feeling in my
> > stomach about altering the body of a message, no matter how good the
> > intentions are.
[snip]

> I agree with Chris.  Many people include obfuscated email addresses in
> their signatures instead of the real address, so I would suggest you do
> that if you're really concerned.  Personally I don't use a signature at
> all, so it's not a problem. :-)


I'll add a "me three" to this.  If someone is so horrible afraid of ending
up on a spam list they should mung their own email address and signatures.
Or set up a dedicated mail account for that purpose.