Re: Spam prevention

[Stefan Monnier]

> I also object to it out of principle -- I don't want to add gross hacks all
> over the place because of idiots like spammers, and I find that conventional
> spam filtering seems to work well enough that it's not really necessary (I've
> _never_ obfuscated my email address, and have been using the same widely
> exposed address many many years, but spam is nothing more than a minor
> background irritation).

More to the point: people I know who obfuscate their email address get about
as much spam as I do.  Spammers seem to get their list of email from many
more places than newsgroups and web pages.


        Stefan