[CUBE] Offering email addresses to spammers as a policy

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-04-22 06:00, mentholiptus wrote:

> On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 10:53  PM, Todd Masco wrote:
> 
>> mentholiptus wrote:
>>
>>> That's fine, because I don't care. I was just commenting on how I've noticed
>>> the same spam that gnarlodious had,
>> 
>> But because of the context, you were implying agreement that the address had
>> been obtained through this list.
>> 
>> Laurie very effectively debunked that claim, even if she overstated your
>> involvement in the process.
>> 
>> The notion that "ASCII encoding" email addresses will stop spammers is not
>> credible.  Sure, it'll stop some of them, but not all - most text-based
>> browsers will automatically convert it to the email address without the user
>> ever knowing how the source appeared.
> 
> Why are you so anti the possibility that the spam DID come from here? Maybe it
> did, yet, maybe it didn't. Either way, I've also been getting spam lately. And
> we're both on this list...so I felt like offering that up.
> 
> Why do claims need to be debunked anyway? If they do, then PROVE that it
> DIDN'T come from this list.

They don't need to. But I find it somewhat important to note that Rachel is
wrong when stating, "my sites are protected, therefore it DEFINITELY is this
list's fault I am getting spam." Which, as demonstrated by Todd above, is
simply not necessarily true.

> Otherwise, who cares.

Exactly. You, apparently.

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