Re: A little more privacy

[taltman]

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

There's a simple solution that doesn't require the Octave email list
to lobby Congress. ;-)

1 ) Just put leading part of email address; obfuscate the rest: address@hidden

2 ) Put a web-form emailing script that allows you to send an email message to
that user, without providing you with their email address. That way,
subscribed members can choose whether to reveal their true email
address via a reply to whomever attempted to contact him.

---

BTW, I believe that it's fair to obfuscate our email addresses for
anonymous web visitors. If they want to have more privilege, that has
to be met with the equivalent amount of responsibility; joining the
list. :-)

HTH,

~Tomer



On Nov 6, 2003 at 10:00am, Steven Levine wrote:

steve5 >Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:00:34 -0800
steve5 >From: Steven Levine <address@hidden>
steve5 >To: address@hidden
steve5 >Subject: Re: A little more privacy
steve5 >Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:13:01 -0600
steve5 >Resent-From: address@hidden
steve5 >
steve5 >In <address@hidden>, on 11/06/03
steve5 >   at 12:46 PM, Lute Kamstra <address@hidden> said:
steve5 >
steve5 >>> nameAThostDOTwhatever the chances are better that your name doesn't
steve5 >>> end up on a spammer's address list.
steve5 >
steve5 >>Don't email harvesters see thought that little trick by now?
steve5 >
steve5 >Any encoding will eventually be transparent to the spammers.  It's their
steve5 >job to figure out how to get around any encoding we might choose.  We
steve5 >might not like their chosen profession, but it's what they do.
steve5 >
steve5 >IMO, there's only two reliable solutions.  Enforce the laws that exist 
or
steve5 >lean on the ISPs to install better spam detection software.
steve5 >
steve5 >The later is important for those that pay by the minute for their
steve5 >connection time.  It also causes the ISPs to absorb more of the costs of
steve5 >fighting spam.  This gives them more of an incentive to find ways to 
stop
steve5 >it at the source.
steve5 >
steve5 >There's a downside to obfusticating addresses in the archive.  You might
steve5 >honestly want to contact someone regarding a post and you won't be able
steve5 >to.
steve5 >
steve5 >Regards,
steve5 >
steve5 >Steven
steve5 >
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