229068 - Inform about e-mail obfuscation to hinder spamming

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

- Minor change (klez -> Klez)
- Include information describing how to "obfuscate" e-mail addresses by using
"(at)" instead of "@" etc. to hinder spambot harvesting.

Comment 1

[Robert Mohr]

klez -> Klez fixed.

Not sure if second part should be fixed, so I'll leave this at unconfirmed.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

"If you post to mailing lists, you can use one of many free mail providers to
create a public account. If your public account get swamped by Junk mail, you
can always create another one. If you post to newsgroups, you can use a public
account or post anonymously, depending on the newsgroup rules."

I don't like "address obfuscation", it makes it unneccessarily difficult for
people to reply to you in private. I think the better approach is to get a free
account and use it.

I don't want to start a flame war here, so if people can point me to a detailed
 article explaining why address obfuscation is superior to using real,
free-account address (or vice versa), I'd be willing to update the doc.

Comment 3

[Robert Mohr]

Resolving fixed, since nobody seems to be able to meet Daniel's challenge.

Comment 4

[Benedikt Kantus]

Robert, you accidentally didn't resolve this.

Resolving as WONTFIX, since this seems more appropriate.