Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:59:46 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly Message-ID: <20031016165946.GA71469@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200310161645.h9GGjj0t016455@green.bikeshed.org> References: <xzpn0c28dpe.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200310161645.h9GGjj0t016455@green.bikeshed.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:45:45PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) 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 concede > > > > 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 or > obfuscated and I especially don't want hidden restrictions about who I can > 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...) Since I also have a working spam-filter (and download bandwidth is not a constraint for me) I'm quite sympathetic to this viewpoint as well. I highly encourage everyone in need of better spam protection to install bogofilter - after training, it catches >98% of my spam with 0 false positives in at least the last 6 months. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/js6CWry0BWjoQKURAkV0AJ9J3JS4qdPk8v5GAKHFGUzn6HJITACgoVRY VuKaxYHCudcT0x1uI1Rn/eA= =tps7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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