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



On Friday 03 August 2007 18:25, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> > However, I *strongly* object to any change that would munge, hide, put
> > behind captcha, or otherwise make it difficult for people to see *my*
> > e-mail address on the bugs that I report or on the packages that I
> > maintain.  Please do *not* protect my e-mail address in some well-meaning
> > but misguided desire to help me with my spam.  I already have tools that
> > do that, and I do not want anyone to put any hurdles whatsoever in the
> > way of people being able to contact me about any of my Debian work.
>
> I want to second this.  I post to Usenet, a lot, using my real
> email address.  I'd rather be accessible than spam-free.

+1. Trying to hide one's email address is futile. Combatting the spam at the 
gates is easy. And fun. :-)

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren@lysator.liu.se
                       (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)

  Who's afraid of the big bad spam?

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