[Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...
Dale Newfield
dale@newfield.org
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:15:37 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Damien Morton wrote:
> should an obfuscation scheme be used at all?
> if yes
> what obfuscation scheme(s) should be used?
> obscured email?
> email as images?
> text based obfuscation?
>**** links to web form email?
>**** omit email addresses entirely?
> other?
The two I marked with (****) above are not obfuscation schemes.
They involve not the obfuscation of information, but rather it's removal.
(While there are reasons webforms are evil, they still provide a way to
contact people whose email addresses have been removed.)
This is what I am advocating.
-Dale