Off-topic: hiding your email address - don't bother...

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Sheila,

> > I think it would be better not to include an email address at all.
> > But current usenet and email software doesn't allow this. There's
> > also the convention of adding ".invalid" to mark an invalid
> > address.
> 
> Certainly following such a convention would be only too easy for
> spammers to remove and get the real address? I mean, they can
> automate the process too easily.

I think the idea is that .invalid shows the email address is invalid.
It doesn't mean a valid one is formed by removing .invalid.

Still a bad idea since I wouldn't notice what it said and it isn't
RFC-approved.

Cheers,


Ralph.