spam mail fodder from public mailing lists

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:42:04PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:32:11PM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > 
> > I used to agree.  If you do a wget on this page:
> > 
> >   http://autogen.sourceforge.net/announce.html
> > 
> > At the very bottom, you'll see indecipherable javascript gobbeldygook.
> > If you do a "view page source" on it, you'll see some HTML mailto
> > markup that email harversters never look at and if they do they
> > cannot decipher.  Finally, if you x-copy and x-paste, you'll get
> > English text.  Something along those lines ought to please everyone.
> 
> Except lynx users, the blind, people who don't use X, and people who
> turn off javascript.

Which means we can't use such techniques.