[ale] (no subject) SPAM talk...

[ChangingLINKS.com]

Geoffrey, for some reason I am getting the distinct feeling that you are the 
DM (decision maker) with regard to the ALE and it's future handling of spam.
It seems as if no other opinions matter. Even that situation would be 
acceptable, however, it's like you are still on "both sides of the fence" 
when it comes to HOW the spam problem will be solved.

My desire is to stop receiving spam due to email harvesting from the ALE 
archives, or at least not have a situation where we allow harvesting and have 
members simultaniously complain about spam. (The other ALE spam problem seems 
to be easily solved by simply dropping any message with an attachment - but 
that probably won't become policy).

Recently, you (again) implied that obfuscation "is a waste of time." You said 
" If you remove the email address from the archive, you're removing a 
 great part of it's value." Briefly skimming your posted "solution" it seems 
as though some effort will have to be done on each client to make the 
solution work :(  My interpretation of all of your posts is that in the 
FUTURE "global" spam "solution," email addresses will still be left 
unobfuscated and laid bare in the ALE archives - ripe for harvesting.

My question (and this post) can be answered with a simple YES/NO answer (save 
the personal attacks for future posts). I have thought up various contingency 
plans for either answer that I can impliment server and/or client-side, but 
I'd like to know the answer so that I know what steps I need to take.

When the future spam solution has been implimented, will unobfuscated email 
addresses be contained in the archives?
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Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew Brown
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com