Re: Spam: process the web archives?
On 16-Oct-02, 04:38 (CDT), Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> If you mean that email addresses HAVE to be disseminated, then your
> counter-counter-argument is bogus.
No, I'm saying that if you participate in a large public e-mail address,
you should expect that said e-mail address is going to be harvested
by spammers. I doubt that re-distributing via web archive or news
makes a huge difference. And my *personal* experience/opinion is that
obfuscating e-mail addresses hinders legitimate communication far more
than it does spammers.
> If you want to reach somebody who said something in a list, you have
> to subscribe to know his email address.
No, I don't. I simply browse one of the many web archives.
> Being able to do that should be a privilege, not a "right". Such
> privilege should be reserved for those who subscribe. We should not
> give spammers such privilege.
So, if I was a major spamhouse, I'd simply subscribe to such lists. If
I was careful not to spam the list from the same address, you'd never
know.
--
Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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