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Re: Spam prevention
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Spam prevention |
Date: |
04 Apr 2004 21:41:46 -0400 |
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> I also object to it out of principle -- I don't want to add gross hacks all
> over the place because of idiots like spammers, and I find that conventional
> spam filtering seems to work well enough that it's not really necessary (I've
> _never_ obfuscated my email address, and have been using the same widely
> exposed address many many years, but spam is nothing more than a minor
> background irritation).
More to the point: people I know who obfuscate their email address get about
as much spam as I do. Spammers seem to get their list of email from many
more places than newsgroups and web pages.
Stefan