Re: A little more privacy

[Christoph Dalitz]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:29:46 +0100
Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > It might be that being spammed is the price to pay for using free software,
> > but I were glad if this could be avoided.
> 
> I fail to see why this problem is specific to free software.  Isn't it
> a general problem of web-archived mailing lists?
>
You are right of course.

> The problem can be
> solved by deleting email addresses from web archives and adding
> buttons that give you those email addresses.  This way, spider bots
> don't find the email addresses, but humans do.
> 
Why should any non list member be able to find the email addresses of
list members over the archives? I would prefer to protect email addresses
entirely.

Christoph Dalitz



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