* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org> [2002-09-02 10:46]:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:01:40AM -0500, Cesar Mendoza wrote:
>> <a HREF="mailto:xmarmol@DOMAIN.HIDDEN";>xmarmol@xxxxxxxxxxxx</a>
>>
> This does not seem very useful. Do you mean that:
>
> joe@somewhere.com
>
> would change into
>
> <a href="mailto:joe@somewhere.com";>joe@Xxxxxxx</a>
Well, as I understand it it would change into
<a href="mailto:joe@DOMAIN.HIDDEN";>joe@Xxxxxxx</a>
with no chance for a user reading the webarchives to mail such a dude :/
> E-mail mangling should be a little more intrusive so as to have users
> be able to retrieve the address while make it difficult to automate.
Fully ACK.
> For example, the archives should mangle the previous address randomly
> to:
>
> - joe@somewhereDOTcom
> - joeREMOVEme@somewhere.com
> - joeATsomewhereDOTcomDOT
> - REMOVETHISjoeANDTHIS@somewhere.comANDTHIS
Well, some people think they are funny if they add REMOVE into their
*real* mail addresses to make some robots remove it and thus make it a
broken address. That's why I dislike random changes, they might lead to
misunderstandings...
Just a thought,
Alfie
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