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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:15:43 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly
Message-ID:  <20031015151542.GA38522@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20031015143545.GA1667@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20031015112920.GA36404@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015132551.GA94612@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031015133634.GA37556@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015143545.GA1667@gothmog.gr>

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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.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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