On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 09:33:42PM -0500, Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) wrote:
> I was noticing that the SLUG archives list our email addresses, not
> truncated, on a webpage for everyone to see - is this normal with mailing
> lists? cause it looks like a great way to get more spam...
>
> I checked out one of the archives for mythtv, and at least they are using
> [at] in place of @ to take a bite out of the automated address scraping
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/363682
>
> on my own site, I put my address under a link that says email me.
The list is run by majordomo, and majordomo has no facility to make
these kinds of edits to email. If I had to guess, I would say that the
software used to archive the list also has no such capabilities. I've
looked at the archives of a variety of lists, and seldom recall seeing
universally obfuscated email addresses.
Paul
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