Can't the
email addresses be obfuscated?
Can't your client and email tools provide better handling of spam?
That's one of the silliest things I have ever read.
I've had the same email address for eight years. During that time, I
have never, not once, tried to obfuscate or hide it. I am, arguably,
more "known" than you or the original inquisitor. Spam has never
gotten to a point where I felt it necessary to ask someone, or a group
of someones, to provide protection of my address in a way that
requires a man-hour or more of research/programming, especially in a
way that would detrimentally affect future inquisitors.
I'm still with Brian. Your argument is flawed.
Please tell me your physical address and telephone number - I would like
to arrange for you to receive lots of junk postal mail and pointless
sales enquiries.
Now if you get a fancy phone system you can probably filter out most of
those junk calls, and if you ask all your real correspondents to put
some identifying mark on the front of their post then you can probably
quickly sieve out most of the junk postal mail....
...Am I getting through here? I'm hoping that you are asking the
question "Why it should be your problem to spend time and effort sieving
this stuff out when I simply shouldn't be sending it to you in the first
place?"
He said "obfuscate" - that's presumably deliberately ambiguous
Ed W