Re: displaying email adresses
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > > If humans can read it, spammers can too.
> >
> > That's inaccurate. You are missing rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
> >
> > Spammers will only read what they can read by mechanical means.
>
> And what parts of everything that is sent to the BTS can they not read
> by mechanical means?
The BTS is mainly email-based, but spammers get email addresses for free
by running spider programs on the WEB, which includes the BTS web pages,
as we are completely careless about putting email addresses there.
What we could do is to restrict access to the web pages a little bit.
> Surely you're not expecting that every single
> mail that is sent to -bugs-dist be munged?
Surely not.
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