Re: A note to Red Hat about spam.

[Bill Crawford <bill syseng netcom net uk>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Richard Hebert wrote:

> It's nice to get nasty with the spambots,but what about prevention ?
> Can a script be launched in their database to remove all private email
> addresses from the database? or replaced by fake ones ?
>
> This is RH's responsibility.

 Actually if mail addresses are being included in reply bodies it's
more like the respondent's responsibility, not Red Hat's.  Theirs, if
they have any, ends with the mail headers, IMO.

 Think: should they scan for *anything* that looks like a mail address
when they could thereby destroy any attempt to post useful information
that includes something with an "@" in it that looks like an address?

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