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Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)



On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:40:12PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> But not everyone has the resources to run a dedicated mail server and maintain 
> it. Many people use webmail such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc., What about 
> them? They should suffer by exposing their email address to the public just 
> because they wanted to help other debian users?

I was 'encrypting' my email address for a while, until I
noticed that it wasn't actually reducing my spam at all.
Such encryption is normally pretty weak.

See also Karsten Self on challenge/response systems:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html

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