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John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
I believe Novell was preparing a joint platform offering forum and news access, but I don't know if they are working yet. Maybe the access there is anonymous, at least no email address published, and the OP would be happier?
I simply can't be bothered to read forums, and will be gone when this list is shutdown in favor of a forum. (That may have some of you demanding a forum immediately). Just my opinion, but I abhor them.
Same here. Forums are the most inefficient method of communicating. They are an idea whose time has never come. The only reason they seem to proliferate, it seems, is because on many sites with not much content, web-masters seem to need forums to justify their own existence.
While you may feel it is a valid concern that there are address harvesting bots subscribed to this list, I have to point out that this IS the Internet, and you WILL get you email address harvested sooner or later if you EVER post with it ANYWHERE.
It seems to me that any attempt to hide the email address becomes very similar to a "security by obscurity" situation, and we all know how well that works.
I have reason to believe that some of the address harvesting is actually the result of "inside jobs" involving packet sniffers/address-harvesters within the commercial routing infrastructure. What leads me to this conclusion? When a .mil e-mail address, which I *NEVER* used to send mail to anyone started receiving over 200 spam messages per day ... that didn't happen by accident. Somehow, that address was sniffed out of e-mail which was sent to me, and the only email which I received on that account came from other .mil addresses. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org