Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:15:43 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly Message-ID: <20031015151542.GA38522@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20031015143545.GA1667@gothmog.gr> References: <20031015112920.GA36404@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015132551.GA94612@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031015133634.GA37556@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015143545.GA1667@gothmog.gr>
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 17:35:45 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Once an email address has been public it's always public. You can't > stop spammers from sharing addresses they harvested already by hiding > those addresses now. They already have them. I mean new spammers and their harvesters, not old ones. > Bearing this in mind, it's obvious why hiding your address now won't > solve your immediate spam problem. It might help in avoiding similar > troubles of future subscribers, but I doubt it will prevent it altogether. I solve immediate spam problem in different ways. Suggesting that I mean to reduce not immediate but future problems. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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