Date: 15 Oct 2003 16:49:51 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly Message-ID: <1066232987.19154.2.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20031015151542.GA38522@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20031015112920.GA36404@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015132551.GA94612@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031015143545.GA1667@gothmog.gr> <20031015151542.GA38522@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:15, Andrey Chernov wrote: > 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. Unfortunately, your email address is all over the various mail archives and uncounted mirrors and caches of those archives. The damage is done - your email address is irreparably compromised, as is mine, sadly.
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