Mail-Archive switched to a policy of completely removing email
addresses quite some time ago - it was a reluctant move, but the user
requests were overwhelming. Older messages were not updated, and still
have lightly obfuscated addresses or unobfuscated addresses in message
bodies.

I will go ahead and manually censor the struts-user message cited,
remind me if you don't see a change within a week. I will not make a
completely anonymous archive (for example, the POST protected reply
mechanism stays).  Mail-Archive fights spammers in a dozen different
ways, which gets tiring after a while. But there will always be some
risk and don't confuse these efforts with any sort of guarantee.

>I'm convinced that if I eliminate most traces of my mail address on
>the web, I'll not receive more junk mail than I receive now or best
>I'll receive less.

As someone who is perhaps slightly further ahead on the spam curve
than most, I unfortunately doubt it. Spam in general is increasing
wildly, and spammers are growing in number. My prediction is email
will be completely unusable for everyone within two years without
filters, and filter-resistant spam will continue rising to very
annoying levels. It is very depresssing.

-Jeff


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