Please tell me your physical address and telephone number - I would like
You, and everyone else, can get it by doing a whois on my domain, or by simply accessing http://disobey.com/about/. Your comparison is flawed.
My apologies - I really had to pee. Let me explain.
I understand that people get spam. I understand that people get junk mail, that they get marketing calls, and that they get annoyed with it. I'm not contesting that people need, and want, to make changes to how they receive and filter information.
What I am against, however, is when those needs and wants *affect me*. And when people obfuscate mailing list archives, or they don't put their email address on their website *at all* (a recent pet peeve that is driving me absolutely bonkers), it is making my life more difficult, and the internet far less useful.
I'm all for people doing what they need to do to curtail the flow of garbage. But only if it doesn't fuck with me. Don't fuck with "my" mailing list archives. Don't force me to reply *twice* to an email you sent me so that I can be put in some whitelist in your badly designed spam filter. Don't force me to Sherlock Holmes for an hour to find your damn email address so I can tell you that you mispelt something on your page and it makes you look like a fool.
For me, asking someone to change the software that services 100+ people (a guess) just so I can live my life a bit easier, is *rude*. And, honestly, that's only going to help, what, a month? Eventually, you're gonna send an email to someone, they're gonna get some virus that leeches their .wab and archived From/To's stored in a mailbox, and you're just gonna be put on a list that way. Once you're on one list, you're gonna be on all of them, and forever (I still get junk to morbus@totalnetnh.net, which hasn't been used for nine years).
There are too many ways for email addresses to be discovered that you'd have to be sending out an awful lot of requests to change things, all for widdle-ol' you. ("Hi! Please don't use Outlook Express. It's bad. K. Thanks!", "Hi! Oop, looks like you have Windows! Hey, tell ya what. Please don't use that? K. Thanks!", "Dear Google: Hi! Someone posted my email address on this site. Please remove it from your archive, the Wayback Machine, and all the caches the world over. K. Thanks!").