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@@ -450,7 +450,11 @@ Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quot
Some mailers include the raw e-mail address in the
"Joe <joe@blah.com> wrote:" line.
The web archives for the mailing lists are publicly available.
-Let's not feed the spam harvesters!
+Let's not feed the spam harvesters! (Some people doubt that munging
+addresses actually works, but for proof that spam harvesters don't try to
+decode even the simplest anti-spam measures such as replacing @ with AT and
+. with DOT, see
+http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml).
Of course, there may be other raw e-mail addresses in messages, e.g.,
in signatures, but that's the choice of the person sending the message.
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