Subject: Re: X-No-Archive and usenet gateway
To: None <traut@gmx.de>
From: Martin Trautmann <csa@gmx.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 10/22/2002 23:21:45
At 22:33 +0200 22.10.2002, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
>hi,
>
>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:18:33PM +0200, Martin Trautmann wrote:
>> At 13:16 -0400 22.10.2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> >
>> >They could just get them out of our online archives.
>>
>> As mentionned before: they are slightly encoded in the online archives
>> (@ replaced by numerical value)
>
>perry meant archives at mail-index.netbsd.org

so did I.

Have a look at e.g.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2002/10/22/0005.html

<B>To:</B> Martin Trautmann <i>&lt;traut&#64;gmx.de&gt;</i><BR>
<B>From:</B> Perry E. Metzger <i>&lt;perry&#64;piermont.com&gt;</i><BR>

>the real problem with spam doesn't lie in obfuscating your email
>address, that's ostrichism and it simply doesn't solve the issue at all.
>i stopped to care years ago and rather use tight configured SMTP and
>mechanisms like spamassassin or ifile.

That's one way, rather efficient, but giving up on the problem.
However, I don't see any need to make it even more simple for them to
filter email adresses.

Kind regards
Martin

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