Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 10:30:51 02/07/02
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On February 07, 2002 at 05:30:02, Ed Schröder wrote: >Dear CCC, > >http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?212113 > >http://site2936.dellhost.com/forums/1/message.shtml?212157 what are these addresses Ed? Seem to be password protected... > >After having received quite a few user complaints from CCC members Uri and I >have discussed this issue in our role as CCC moderator to keep CCC a sane place. >We decided to make it a public case. > >The issue is about listing your email address in your contributions. This opens >the door spamming you, as the 2 above examples show you. > >In our role as moderator we feel not responsible what happens outside this >forum, our job is limited to what is happening here. However we do feel some >responsibility because listing your email address is something you perhaps do >not want out of privacy reasons. > >As far as we know the above 2 cases are a new development, we never have heard >of previous spamming cases but maybe it has happened already more times, we just >don't know. > >We want to make a couple of suggestions... > >#1. Leave things as they are. > >#2. Remove the email address from CCC postings. > >#3. Have the option to list your email address or not. #4 Show the email address, but mangle it slightly so that a stupid spambot will not be able to use it. Eg: peter_mckenzie@hotmail.com could become peter_mckenzie__stopspam@hotmail.com. > >While we think the basic idea to have your email address listed is just great ( >it's handy to contact people in private) we feel worried about the above 2 >cases, hence our public action. We also feel it is not our job to decide about >this impoortant issue on our own. > >We would like to hear your opinion and based on the outcome we might ask Steve >to modify his software. In case of doubt we also could ask Steve to create a >poll on this issue. > >Kind regards, > >Ed Schroder >CCC moderator
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