Email Harvesting

Ryan Dlugosz wrote:

Nikolai Weibull said:

with parsing emails from usenet. would it be possible for someone
to
take care of this?

My $.02 = Attempting to hide all the emails does more harm than
good… it
really only makes it harder for people to contact you who have a
genuine
reason to do so (i.e. - with a Ruby question). As far as spam
goes, not
publishing your email address certainly helps, but the first time a
friend
or relative sends you an electronic “greeting card” you’re sunk.

Perhaps the effort would be better spent on improving anti-spam
systems…

I tend to agree here. Spam sucks and I hate it as much as the next
guy,
but I don’t expect (nor do I trust, really), anyone but me to do
something about my spam, and hiding my email address isn’t any real

answer.

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