[ale] Webcrawlers can harvest ALE Archive E-mail Addresses

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 12:59 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Poppycock. There are plenty of mailing list archives out there
> that make /some/ effort to prevent harvesting of the email addresses.
> Most of them do something as simple as changing email addresses
> found to (greg "at" turnstep.com) or something similar. 

Ahhh, the signs of newbieness in spring.  ;-)

Dude, things that can be obfuscated can also be un-obfuscated.  Again,
there is NOTHING (short of elimination) that you can do to prevent an
email address, on a public archive, from being harvested.

-Jim P.