On 03 Oct 2003, J. Bruce Fields wrote: [snip] > > Personally I gave up on the idea of hiding my email address a long time > ago. I want people with a legitimate reason to be able to reach me > without jumping through hoops. With dictionary attacks against mail > servers and third-party leaks of email addresses (think what a virus can > do with a correspondant's inbox), I'm not convinced that obfusticating > my email address is going to continue to be a good anti-spam solution > anyway. > > --Bruce Fields
I agree. I've sometimes been pleased to be able to get further information via email when I've come across an interesting message on Google. I don't find that spam grows endlessly, though there is certainly a lot of it - it's been fairly constant for many months at about 80-100/day (I don't count it). But spamprobe catches virtually all of it with no false positives at all, so never have to see it. It just makes my mail downloads take a bit longer than they otherwise would, but as I'm on an unmetered account this doesn't matter greatly. Admittedly, if I had to pay depending on my time on line I might feel differently, I suppose. Anthony Campbell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
