[no subject]

My desire is to stop receiving spam due to email harvesting from the ALE 
archives, or at least not have a situation where we allow harvesting and have 
members simultaniously complain about spam. (The other ALE spam problem seems 
to be easily solved by simply dropping any message with an attachment - but 
that probably won't become policy).

Recently, you (again) implied that obfuscation "is a waste of time." You said 
" If you remove the email address from the archive, you're removing a 
 great part of it's value." Briefly skimming your posted "solution" it seems 
as though some effort will have to be done on each client to make the 
solution work :(  My interpretation of all of your posts is that in the 
FUTURE "global" spam "solution," email addresses will still be left 
unobfuscated and laid bare in the ALE archives - ripe for harvesting.

My question (and this post) can be answered with a simple YES/NO answer (save 
the personal attacks for future posts). I have thought up various contingency 
plans for either answer that I can impliment server and/or client-side, but 
I'd like to know the answer so that I know what steps I need to take.

When the future spam solution has been implimented, will unobfuscated email 
addresses be contained in the archives?
-- 
Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ChangingLINKS.com";>http://www.ChangingLINKS.com</a>


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