On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:37 -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
Summary: Spammers now have so many ways of "harvesting" addresses from so many systems, and so many ways of exchanging those with each other, that any email address which is actually used WILL eventually be harvested. (Where what "eventually" means varies widely, of course, but can be expected to steadily decrease.) Pretending that address obfuscation in mailing list [or newsgroup] archives will have any meaningful effect on this process gives users a false sense of security and has zero anti-spam value.
Just a little sample: usually I obfuscated addresses in my .signature. Due to the same arguments you are elaborating I used an unobfuscated one for 3 days. Now this address is contaminated and I'm refraining to obfuscating.
my 2¢ Siggy
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