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Subject: Re: So I got this 411 spam this morning...
From: Omar Thameen <omar @ westside . urbanblight . com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:25:16 -0400
To: Tom Neff <tneff @ grassyhill . net>
Cc: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <96327015.1051788667@tomdual2>; from tneff@grassyhill.net on Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:31:07AM -0400
References: <D6785ACC-7BE7-11D7-8A7C-0003934516A8@plaidworks.com> <96327015.1051788667@tomdual2>
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

More than better than nothing.  According to this study:
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml

"The vast majority of the spam we received -- over 97% of it -- was
delivered to addresses that had been posted on the public Web."

Omar

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:31:07AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote:
> I acknowledge that cloaking addresses in archives is better than nothing, but
> in the long run I do not think that trying to keep email addresses secret is
> an effective antispam policy.  To be useful, at least some addresses must be
> known.


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