Index: acronyms/index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/cygwin/htdocs/acronyms/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.83 diff -u -p -r1.83 index.html --- acronyms/index.html 2 Sep 2004 16:34:42 -0000 1.83 +++ acronyms/index.html 23 Sep 2004 11:21:46 -0000 @@ -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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