Tek 1230

From: Peter Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Jun 23 18:25:00 2003

On Jun 23, 14:43, Erik Klein wrote:

> I've noticed a fair number of these types of posts lately. Basically
> it comes down to the address munging that's being done to prevent
> spammers from harvesting is also preventing legitimate browsers from
> identifying the authors of messages individually.
>
> I'm not sure if anyone wants this fixed, but couldn't we perform some
> form of reversible modification to the email address? Perhaps
turning
> cctalk_at_classiccmp.org into cctalk2003ATclassiccmpDOTorg would fool
the
> harvesters and allow people to reply to an individual.

I'd like to see it fixed. I've had occasional useful contacts from
people who've seen my address in the archive, and I'd rather see it
munged in some human-reversible way than simply replaced with the
mailing list address.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Mon Jun 23 2003 - 18:25:00 BST

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