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Subject: Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly 
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=3DF8rgrav?=3D) wrote:
> Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 16:02:16 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > And I personally think that by "hiding" the email addresses, you co=
ncede
> > > defeat to the spammers.  I don't want to let a bunch of low-life
> > > con-men decide how I can and should use the InterNet.
> > It sounds heroic, but the position alone not helps to stop low-life =

> > con-men's invasion.
> =

> Stop whining and install SpamAssassin.

Seconded.  I get about two spam messages a week that get through to the =

inbox, and the rest picked off by SpamAssassin with a good spamfolder to =

assist it with Bayesian filtering (I don't delete spam, I move it all to =
the =

spam folder if I see it in my inbox).  Actually, you know what I'd like? =
 =

Absolutely no protection for my address at all.  I don't want it hidden o=
r =

obfuscated and I especially don't want hidden restrictions about who I ca=
n =

and can't send e-mail to/receive e-mail from dictated solely by the mail =

server (i.e. can't receive mail from or send to my uncle using AOL... not=
 =

using @FreeBSD.org as my address...)


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