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[Paul Johnson]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2008 10:57:54 pm L. Rahyen wrote:
> On Thursday March 20 2008 04:34:09 Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 07:21:42 pm jnewman wrote:
> > > Zachary Goldberg wrote:
> > > > Are these being caused by people changing the subject mid-thread on
> > > > the forum?  Can we disable that ability to prevent thread jumps?
> > >
> > > No, they are being caused by posts from outside the forum (ala the
> > > list). Not sure what can be done about that, other than to ask people
> > > to try to keep that to a minimum.
> >
> > While we're at it, for the benefit of list users, could we get the forum
> > to put a real address in the From: instead of a nonfunctional
> > boilerplate?
>
> 	No, e-mail address shouldn't be revealed to the public (and spam robots).
> And if user wants his/her contacts published in the forum he/she can
> register there and fill in corresponding fields and then continue to write
> to mailing list (instead of forum). If user don't want his/her e-mail to be
> revealed in the forum (or somewhere else) then this shouldn't happened.
> 	Of course it is possible to modify e-mail somehow to prevent spam robots
> from collecting the address so easily but protected e-mail and true e-mail
> are different things (as I said above, true e-mail address never should be
> revealed to the public).

Address munging is considered harmful.  It's the postmaster's responsibility 
not to accept spam in the first place.
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/

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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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