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See, I don't think that having my email harvested is like losing my
virginity--it isn't a once in a lifetime event, aafter which you can
never go back.  90% or more of the places my email is available is on
the ALE archive.  If I could stop if from being harvested in the
future from that archive I believe that my spam would slow to a
trickle over time.

I am not saying it is a permana=ent solution to the worldwide problem
of harvesting.  I'm saying that it would be a progmatic and useful
responc=se to the particular problem that I have.
 
> Dissecting issues such archived email, and only looking at the way one
> person uses eamil, or the way one mailinglist or website archives it,
> doesn't really provide a workable and robust solution worthy of
> implementation.  In the narrow case of ALE, supposing that someone hacks
> Mailman/MhonArc to obfuscate email addresses, who is going to port those
> hacks over to the next Mailman/MhonArc release?  Who is going to analyze
> those hacks every time a security patch is release?  Who is going to
> maintain those hacks today, tomorrow, next year, next decade, as
> spammers begin to un-obfuscate them?

Those are valid questions.  And the right answer is either a)
contribute the changes back to the maintainers.  If they refuse them,
b) switch to an archiver that already supports the feature.

Michael


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