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Re: Hiding email addresses from spammers on https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php



On Thursday 02 August 2007 22:21:00 Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 11099 March 1977, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > those bots following robots.txt are our friend, however there apparently
> > is none on nm.debian.org and I am certain that email address harvesters
> > would not care anyway.
> >
> > Please consider to have the email addresses formatted in a way that
> > renders them less suitable for spammers.
>
> I object.
>
> And it doesnt help you anyway. *TONS* of other pages where your debian
> related address appears with no useless reformatting.

Your (to me) surprising reply has indeed seeded some though processes on why I 
felt that we should live with such reformatting.

I think it is that those who actively parse email addresses to remove 
some "<img .. alt="@"/>" or ".at." overcome a hurdle that was intentionally 
and obviously set to avoid mass emails. Technical triviality should not be an 
excuse to the judges here and grant them more severe sentences. Also there 
are so many places that are full of clear text alternatives that it does not 
seem worth the effort.

Non-reformatted email addresses should appear just nowhere in my view. Maybe 
you are right and this is nonsense since spamming is illegal already with 
practical problems that it causes for access via ASCII or Braille  terminals. 
To admit that will take me some nights' thought processes, though.

Many thanks for your swift reply

Steffen



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