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Re: List archives available on www.pupman-dot-com again
Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov>
you can mask the email by adding a "-mapson-" or something in the middle of
the email address. If someone wants to send an email, they can edit the
TO: in their mail program.
I've heard, but have no verification, that the harvesting programs are
"wise to" the scheme of simply putting "nospam" or variants in the name,
and just parse them out.
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> From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: RE: List archives available on www.pupman-dot-com again
> Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 3:05 PM
>
> Original poster: "Atkinson, Chip" <CAtkinson-at-Circadence-dot-com>
>
> Hmmm.. From the few replies, it appears that concealing the poster is
not
> desired. I'll stop doing that and see if there's some other way to
obscure
> addresses from spammers yet allow them to be seen by web users.
>
> Chip
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 6:42 PM
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: List archives available on www.pupman-dot-com again
> >
> >
> > Original poster: Clearspring1-at-aol-dot-com
> >
> > Hi Chip,
> >
> > > The November archives have the email addresses obscured to
> > prevent spam
> > > harvesters from getting them. The disadvantage is that
> > you don't know who
> > > posted the messages. Let me know what you think about
> > this practice.
> >
> > Personally I find the authorship invaluable, and sometimes
> > search by author
> > as well as subject. It seems clear to me that posts by some of the
> > heavyweights warrant greater scrutiny than those of
> > lightweights such as
> > myself :-) I hope there is a way to keep this information...
> >
> > Michael Tandy
> >
> >
> >
>
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