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Author: Marc Sherman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: web archive obfuscating mail addresses in message bodies
> Marc Sherman <msherman@???> writes:
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>> http://www.exim-users.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2825&postcount=9


Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
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> And with only very moderate obfuscation here:
>
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user


My point was that Ian's address, the one he's so anxious to protect from
web publication, already appears en clair in the message I linked above
(thanks to another poster's un-trimmed top posting). Gmane.org doesn't
do that, but it only takes one such archive to prove that archive
obfuscation as a tool for spam reduction is a fool's errand.

- Marc