From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 18:14:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378C316A4B3; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mk.bsdclub.org (l209160.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [218.219.209.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D7F43FBF; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from motoyuki@mk.bsdclub.org) Received: from mserver.mk.bsdclub.org (nobody@localhost.mk.bsdclub.org [127.0.0.1])ESMTP/inet id h941EtR5040906; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:14:55 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from motoyuki@mserver.mk.bsdclub.org) Message-Id: <200310040114.h941EtR5040906@mail.mk.bsdclub.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" From: Motoyuki Konno References: <20030930092343.E5EF.WILLOW@ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp> <20031003214927.GB388@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: EMH/1.10.0 SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.4 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:14:55 +0900 Sender: motoyuki@mk.bsdclub.org cc: Tadashi Yanagihara cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request for removal of mailto: X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:14:58 -0000 Hi, "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote: > As far as I know there is no simple way to do this at the moment. That > said, I also think in general that "the damage is done" since the email > address is out there in many email achieves on the web. > > I don't think it makes much difference for the spammer harverster > programs, if there is a mailto: or not when the email address is there > (of coure I don't know for sure, but I doubt it). > > In the long run I think you would be much better of installing a spam > filter (like SpamAssasin). I catches more than 99% of the spam I get. > > Sorry that I can't give you a better answer. There are many people who can not endure receiving many spams (ex. dialup ppp, slow connection, ...). If we do nothing on this problem, some people may think that "If I submit PR, I will receive many many spam. So I will not submit PR." It's not good. I propose to do followings: o delete "mailto:" tag o use "username at foo.org" instead of "username@foo.org" Any comments? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motoyuki Konno motoyuki@bsdclub.org (Home) motoyuki@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Project) http://www.freebsd.org/~motoyuki/ (WWW)