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Re: Eliminating Junk E-mail for List members
At 22:30 +0200 on 03/11/1999, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>I use a much simpler method on the Ivrix mailing-list archives: I simply
>convert *everything* that looks like an email address to the string
>"email@hidden". Granted, this way people will not be able to find any
>emails in the archives, but I'm not sure this is a real problem. To talk
>to mailing-list subscribers, people should probably join the list and mail
to it.
I can think of two reasons why your global filter is less than
satisfactory (this was discussed in another mailing list I'm on):
1. Emails in mailing lists are not always the address of the sender.
For example, I can imagine that if someone published the email addresses
of stores that sell PCs with linux pre-installed, it would be an on-topic
subject for this list, and it would be a real shame if someone ran into
this in the archives and they were all converted to email@hidden...
2. Formatting reasons. Sometimes we format data, like lists of contacts,
assuming the readers use a fixed-width font. Shortening e-mails tends to
ruin such formatting. This means that your hiding mechanism is best done
with a string of the same length as the original.
I also have reason to disagree with your assumption that one never
has to contact someone from the list personally. Suffice it to say
that if I see someone on the list whose name is "Moshe Israeli", and
I want to ask him the simple question "are you the Moshe Israeli I
know from Moshav Ledugma?" (Happened to me, in my own mailing
list...), you wouldn't want me to post to the entire list. There are
less eccentric examples - you saw someone is using LinuxPPC, and you
want to ask him whether he may have a source for used Mac parts in
the Beer-Sheva area. Things like that. Don't prevent people from
doing things within reason just because there are spammers out in the
world.
In egroups.com they limit access to e-mails in two forms. The ones in
the "To:" are covered by a URL that leads to an form or page where
you can email the person, and you can only go to a "To:" link a
limited number of times per day, or something like that. And other
emails in the text are covered with a change of one letter. Another
mailing list I'm on simply replaces the character "@" with another
character throughout the text.
Herouth
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