On 31 Jan 2006 at 13:04, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/31/06, Tom Steinberg tom@tomsteinberg.co.uk wrote:
Is it permissable to put email addresses on wikipedia, if they're already public?
Of course it is! How on earth are people to be able to communicate with one another if their email addresses are hidden?
I profess profound distaste for the practice of concealing, mangling, and distorting email addresses. I myself have had an email address on my userpage for well over a year and can count the amount of spam that has gotten though on the fingers of one hand, so there's no excuse.
Me too... I've got a strong dislike of all the various types of address munging used online, which I find extremely bothersome and unaesthetic; and I haven't changed this opinion despite getting spam by the ton (metric or imperial). This includes the whole panoply of techniques from turning it into an image, spelling it out in increasingly creative ways (people seem to find "user at something dot net" too simple, so they come up with ever more convoluted ways of saying it, like "username 'user' with an at sign followed by the hostname in the top level domain 'net' of 'something'), or messed-up addresses where they have to tell you to "Remove the NOSPAM", and so on.