Off-topic: hiding your email address - don't bother...

[chris liechti]

ralph at inputplus.demon.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) wrote in 
news:9p5aio$50a$1 at inputplus.demon.co.uk:
> Another persuasive argument is
> 
>     http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/fake-email.html
> 

as this article and other posts in this thread point out, its annoying or 
even unfrendly to everyone who takes the time to answer when his mail is 
bounced.

i immediatly removed my nospam string in the address. it's not helping 
anyway:

some spammers are surely clever enough to detect such fake emails and they 
may even correct it. (removing spaces, replacing 'at'=='@', remove strings 
like 'no.spam' etc. isn't a big thing, is it?)
and anyone here knows that writing a python programm that collects and 
checks email addresses from a newserver would be a matter of minutes as 
everything is provided by the standard library (nntplib, re and string 
modules) [hope no one gets on bad ideas!?!]

chris

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chris <cliechti at gmx.net>