JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is, of course, the fact that the majority of Internet > sites need your email address in one way or another. So, you can't > really live in a connected world without your email address being > made public in one way or another. Hence, the arms race against > spam.
Hence futility of obscuring your address, point I was trying to make in the first place. ;) What are better approaches, then? Throwaway addresses? Rigorous spam filtering? (Yet another arms race there.) Hunting spammers down and doing Nasty Things to them? <laugh> At this point I probably have nothing more to add to the discussion, not knowing much about the majic that makes all of this work. Or not work. =) >> have it _somewhere_) won't get compromised. <shrug> Bit of a long >> shot, isn't it? > Almost, but who knows? History has a lot of cases where 'long shots' > were actually successful. ;) What, we have to rely on the integrity of sites that might actually be the reason why we get all this spam anyway? > True, but spam has the nasty feature of decidedly making stuff > inaccessible. (The possible examples are left to the reader) True, that. If I didn't have Jijo's funky spam-handling and my wonderful scoring system (a mix of Bayesian and criteria filtering and sorting)... =) >> I'm probably just spoiled by Jijo's excellent spam-handling, the > Ah, but we the unwashed masses do aspire for such a pinnacle of > enlightenment as yours. ;) Go bug Jijo, the Enlightened One. Me, I'm really happy with free.net.ph. <grin> -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - open source geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, making computer science education fun wearable computing, personal information management http://sacha.free.net.ph/ - PGP Key ID: 0xE7FDF77C -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
