On 31 Jan 2006 at 13:04, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/31/06, Tom Steinberg
<tom(a)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.
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