I don't have spam problems - and have been a part of the JVF for several
years . I don't see a reason to hide the email addresses
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd" <garmtdevries~at~gmail.com>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: JVF spam issues
> 2009/7/11 Nadav Har'El <nyh~at~math.technion.ac.il>:
>> One possible countermeasure is to completely hide all email
>> addresses from these Web pages, but I think these email addresses are
>> useful
>> to the community, so I'd hate to hide them. Just yesterday somebody asked
>> me
>> about how to contact directly some Jules Verne expert, and I told him -
>> just
>> look at the JVF membership list! Of course, if the list members want me
>> to change this aspect (or any other aspect) of the way the mailing list
>> is
>> run, please let me know.
>
> No, I'd prefer things to stay the way they are.
>
> Remember, even if you never post your mail address anywhere on the
> WWW, friends and family will have it in their address book, and as
> soon as one of their computers is hacked/trojaned/wormed, your address
> will be exposed. Nothing for it but to apply a good filter... I'm
> quite happy with Gmail's spam filtering. I get a minimum of spam
> messages in my inbox, and I don't believe I've ever encountered a
> false positive.
>
> Cheers,
> Garmt.
Received on Sat 11 Jul 2009 - 23:00:51 IDT