From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Spam prevention Date: 04 Apr 2004 21:41:46 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87zn9ryzhu.fsf-monnier+emacs@alfajor.local> References: <20040405013209.GA1362@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081129521 2863 80.91.224.253 (5 Apr 2004 01:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 05 03:45:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BAJAn-0001nK-00 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2004 03:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BAJAn-0005Cy-00 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2004 03:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BAJ9Y-0004Wo-Ks for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:43:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BAJ8M-0002qk-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BAJ7e-0001Xj-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.34] (helo=tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BAJ7d-0001Vs-6w; Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.119.109]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040405014146.KZVH6153.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 413E3D73E8; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 21:41:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040405013209.GA1362@fencepost> Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21263 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21263 > I also object to it out of principle -- I don't want to add gross hacks all > over the place because of idiots like spammers, and I find that conventional > spam filtering seems to work well enough that it's not really necessary (I've > _never_ obfuscated my email address, and have been using the same widely > exposed address many many years, but spam is nothing more than a minor > background irritation). More to the point: people I know who obfuscate their email address get about as much spam as I do. Spammers seem to get their list of email from many more places than newsgroups and web pages. Stefan