[Mailman-Developers] Proposed: remove address-obfuscation code from Mailman 3

Rich Kulawiec writes:

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.

You're missing the point. Our (often non-technical) users demand this feature. Even our technical audience (see Siggy's parallel post for example) perceives benefits from obfuscation, based on empirical tests.

So you can explain why, in theory and in practice, obfuscation doesn't work. But the user base will (stubbornly, if you like) refuse to accept your logic.