spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

[Joel Hatton]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:19:57 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote:
>> It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
>> before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
>> Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the
>> post gets sent to the list members.
>> Why can't this list do the same thing so the posters email address don't
>> show up in the archives on the news group servers where spammers harvest the
>> posters email address for targeting spam to?
>
>Because then you would not be able to send your reply to the person asking a
>question.  Keep in mind that many people who post here are *not* subscribed
>to the list and therefore will not be able to read answers that only go to
>the list.  Therefore their e-mail addresses need to be visible to everybody.

Exactly. I subscribe to a _lot_ of mailing lists that allow posting (like
this one), and I can't recall any of them removing sender addresses. I do
expect that kind of behaviour on web forums, and that's one of the reasons
I prefer mailing lists.

cheers,
joel