Perhaps if people are obfuscating or not directly
giving you their e-mail
address it is because they don't want you to know what it is. Understandably,
if someone doesn't want to talk to you and you want to talk to them,
that can be frustrating. But that's their right.
Fair enough, certainly. But, in my head, if they have a website, they're
doing so for someone to read it. If they *only* wanted people to read
it, they'd write a book, where interaction is difficult. Interaction is
implied when you publish something (non-anon) on the *inter*net.
Your point also suggests that one should have an individual choice, upon
signup, on whether his address were obfuscated in an archive (or, more
sensibly, on live sends too, such that private archives wouldn't have it
either). I guess I'd "support" an opt in feature for that, although I'm
conflicted in so-doing (*choice* is something I never want removed, and
it'd be an individuals' choice, not a forced capability applied to every
one); I'd certainly opt out of it.
this mailing list. (a couple others are similar, but
not mine). That means
that the 2-3 spam messages I get per day on this relatively new address are
from this mailing list.
I'm not sure I fully agree, though it is certainly a possibility. You're
telling me that you implicitly trust every person you've sent a personal
email to to be expert enough to secure their machine from harvesters? Or
that every one of our subscribers on this list have pure machines that
couldn't have third partied your email to someone, through no fault of
the public archive?
If you go to
mail.wikipedia.org
<http://mail.wikipedia.org> and sign in to
wikitech-l, you can access a list of Wikitech-l subscribers. A poor attempt
I agree that is not a good idea. I may sub to incest@, but if I never
post there because I don't want people to know, giving away my address,
either monetarily or freely purposes, is bad.
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