Re: Removal of Email Address
Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 05:18:45PM -0400, Ian L. wrote:
> > I agree with Mr. Bushnell. I simply hope that the Debian list archives
> > uses some sort of email munging mechanism in the future to make the
> > archives less harvestable by email-grabbing robots.
>
> I don't object to this, as long as:
>
> 1) we apply it consistently; i.e., to all email addresses
> 2) we leave enough information for a person to be able to reconstruct
> the address unambiguously
I don't know if/how well it would work for something as high traffic as
the Debian lists but the Nashville Linux User Group website has a
tutorial for setting up "spam proof" mailing list archives by converting
all e-mail addresses into images.
http://nlug.org/story.php?content_id=45
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