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



On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:35:24PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Ben Pfaff (blp@cs.stanford.edu) [070803 18:26]:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Fully agreed. (And, BTW, my mailadress is burned anyways - I'm using it
> for years in usenet now, and even posted to news.answers for a few years
> - nothing worse can happen to any address.)

I agree as well. I do post a lot on usenet as well (using a different
address, so I can see where an address was scraped from), and I can
say that most of my spam goes to the addresses that are visible on
Debian web pages, namely mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de and
mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de. Addresses used on Usenet do not get a
lot of spam nowadays.

Greetings
Marc, rather reachable than spam-free

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