spam mail fodder from public mailing lists

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:35:35PM -0400, Gray Watson wrote:
> Hey:
> 
> So yesterday I spidered your public mailing lists on:
> 
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html
> 
> I was able to get 38000 email addresses (probably ~10000 of which are
> valid).  This is a gold mine for spam email spiders.

Obfuscating email adresses is giving in to spammers. It's silly and a
few minutes of perl education is enough to decipher "foo at bar dot
com" or whatever non-computer-readable format people use. I'd rather
that people held spammers accountable for their actions rather than
hide from them. Of course, it isn't easy.