Art Lemasters <slemas1@mindspring.com>  wrote:
 >    The best way to stop Web spambots from harvesting a mailing list
 > archive, IMO, is the way some Yahoo lists owners do it with a
 > Yahoo list config--to *simply cut off part of each and every
 > e-mail address in every post before they are posted to the Web.*
 > Surely a script (even an existing, free script) exists for this,
 > and it's better than simply obfuscating.  If the spambots can't
 > get whole mail addresses at all, they can't gather usable
 > addresses.  And there's no reason, IMO, that our e-mail addresses
 > should be visible at all in the Web archive.  Existing archives
 > could be parsed to remove parts of all e-mail addresses, too, no?

I don't think anyone is arguing that it can't be done or can't be
done easily.  I think the decision whether to do it is stuck in
some admin group within the project.