Re: A little more privacy

[Lute Kamstra]

Christoph Dalitz <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:29:46 +0100
> Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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.

Now and then, I look into web archives of mailing lists that I'm not
subscribed to.  (For example, to see if it is worth my while to
subscribe.)  Sometimes I read something interesting and I'd like to
contact the author about it.  Isn't that a legitimate reason to get an
email address?

  Lute.



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