Re: fighting spam || avoiding spam
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:19:06PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:03:14PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > Apart from setting spam filter on the debian mail server, are there
> > any plans to avoid spam -- for example, by partly obfuscating email
> > addresses wherever such addresses are printed on debian.org?
>
> (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
>
> There is only one thing more useless and annoying than a bug or list
> archive that does not contain the correct mail addresses, and that's
> one where snippets of perl code have been destroyed by mindless
> obliteration of strings containing @ signs.
This sort of thing is particularly noticeable in the GNU Arch list
archives too, and makes it almost impossible to follow posts there that
contain any archive names.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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