Re: [libreoffice-website] Protecting listarchives.libreoffice.org against email harvesters?

Hi Florian,

alright, thanks for explaining the situation.

ALex

Am 16.04.2014 10:49, schrieb Florian Effenberger:
> Hello,
>
> Alexander Wilms wrote on 2014-04-16 10:44:
> > would it be possible to display email adresses without periods and
> > @-signs, like e.g. the Gnome list archive does it in order to cut down
> > the chances of them being found by a spambot?
>
> we decided to not obfuscate mail addresses on purpose. The benefit is 
> close to zero - either we obfuscate that much that people can't 
> contact the author directly, or we obfuscate just a bit, which isn't a 
> real barrier for spammers.
>
> My personal take is that obfuscating causes lots of work (someone with 
> C skills needs to patch mlmmj to obfuscate the addresses in its 
> archive, for example), but doesn't bring any big benefit.
>
> Florian

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