[ale]OT It begins...

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 4 08:43:36 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:54, Geoffrey wrote:

> Why not?
> 
> As long as the obfuscation has a general approach, folks checking the 
> archives should be able to translate it to the proper addr.

google for "security through obscurity".

> 
> I don't think the need is to encrypt the addys, just obfuscate them, 
> which would require a manual process to translate back.

There will also be email addresses perfectly suited for the archives. 
IE: ale at ale.org, ale-admin at ale.org, my.senator at us.gov,
linux-help at sf.net, etc, etc.   Would you remove/obfuscate those so that
it breaks everyone's mailto handler?

-Jim P.






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