[CUBE] Offering email addresses to spammers as a policy

[Allan Hise]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, mentholiptus wrote:
> On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 07:59  PM, Laurie A Duncan wrote:
>
> > Yes you have:
>
> No I haven't:

[snip]

> Note those weren't posted by me, but by mailing lists...one of which is
> this one, the other an old linux list I joined when OSX was nearing
> release.
>

[snip]

> Here...read this...read it twice: "I've never posted my address
> anywhere on the web". Go ahead and waste your night trying to stick it
> to me, I'll be out enjoying myself in the meantime.

Jesse, don't take this as a personal attack, because it isn't. All I can
say is that one is naive to think that messages posted to a public forum
via your email (this mailing list) will *not* have your address archived
somewhere on the internet (or "anywhere on the web"). If one does not
actively try to disguise their address, spammers somehow, some way will
get it. I'm not saying I like it or condone it, but it is currently a fact
of life. One must therefore take appropriate measures. I personally have a
nice set of procmail recipes and a specially developed muscles that make
reaching for the d(elete) key nealry effortless.

Allan