From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-09-22T10:22:15-07:00
Subject: Re: Real emails on newsgroup version (was Re: POP3Filter)


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Gavin Sinclair (gsinclair@soyabean.com.au) wrote:

> > It wasn't a conscious decision: I just reflected the e-mail out to=20
> > usenet as it stood. It struck me that as this was a public mailing=20
> > list, with no subscription qualifications, then any e-mail address used=
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> > was effectively public too.
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> > I'm open to discussion on this
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> It wouldn't take much effort to change the email address, would it?
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>   email.sub(/@/, " (at) ")
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> And nobody would *complain* that their address was being modified.

But then I would compalin that my address was being modified.  Spammers
can spot something as simple as this and flip it back to an @.

All addresses are visible on the archives at ruby-talk.org anyhow,
freely available for harvesting.

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