Offering email addresses to spammers as a policy

[Gnarlodious]

Thanks to this list, my mailbox has been trashed by spammers since this page
was put up a few months ago:
http://lists.themacintoshguy.com/Lists/Cube/Message/16592.html

You may not be aware of this, but it is rude to put someone's email address
on a web page without their permission. I am sure that if this list knew you
were doing this as a general policy there would be an outcry since nobody I
know enjoys receiving spam.

I am sure this was an ignorant mistake, however, if you insist on making
this list's subscribers available to spammers it should be stated as a
disclaimer when we join the list.

If for some obscure reason you must have an email address for every
subscriber it should be ASCII-encoded, like this:
<a 
href="&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#103;&#110;&#97;&#114;&#108;&
#111;&#100;&#105;&#111;&#117;&#115;&#64;&#99;&#121;&#98;&#101;&#114;&#109;&#
101;&#115;&#97;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;">&#103;&#110;&#97;&#114;&#108;&#111;&#
100;&#105;&#111;&#117;&#115;&#64;&#99;&#121;&#98;&#101;&#114;&#109;&#101;&#1
15;&#97;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;</a>

This strategy allows a browser to display the email address while hiding it
from spambots.

But its too late for my mailbox, the spammers got it.