hiding e-mail adresses needed badly

[Doug Rabson]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:15, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, your email address is all over the various mail archives
and uncounted mirrors and caches of those archives. The damage is done -
your email address is irreparably compromised, as is mine, sadly.