J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aye, there's that. I'm increasingly convinced of late that lists will > be forced to obscure the addresses on the messages they send out > TMDA-dated style. Its not a difficult engineering problem, its not even > a particularly difficult SysAdm or community problem in doing this. It > adds a possibly significant processing load (not storage) to the list > host as he then needs to deal with (forward or discard) mail to such > dated addresses, but that's not an impossible problem or load. The > problem is in training the great unwashed to understand that addresses > can be date limited.
If you do implement this, it would be cool if you could make it a per-user option. My address is public. I want it that way. I use it in the mailto links on my web pages and I use it when posting to Usenet. I deal with the spam that results; I prefer to be accessible. I can wholeheartedly understand and support people who want to make other choices, but I personally strongly dislike TMDA-style addresses or constantly changing addresses for my own personal mailbox and don't want to suddenly discover that I've been assigned some by some mailing list that I'm posting to. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
