hiding e-mail adresses needed badly

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Wed Oct 15 15:15:54 UTC 2003


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 17:35:45 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Once an email address has been public it's always public.  You can't
> stop spammers from sharing addresses they harvested already by hiding
> those addresses now.  They already have them.

I mean new spammers and their harvesters, not old ones.

> Bearing this in mind, it's obvious why hiding your address now won't
> solve your immediate spam problem.  It might help in avoiding similar
> troubles of future subscribers, but I doubt it will prevent it altogether.

I solve immediate spam problem in different ways. Suggesting that I mean 
to reduce not immediate but future problems.

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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