[OT?] bugzilla and... (sigh) spam

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:25:49PM +0200, Tobias Sager wrote:
> On 20.10.04 16:49 Barbara Pennacchi wrote:
> 
> > On 20.10.04 15:53, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:48:05PM +0200, Barbara Pennacchi wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to ask (nicely) abovesaid bugzilla's maintainers to
> > > > set it ASAP to hide email addresses from harvesters?
...
> 
> Feature request for bugzilla is here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215439

I am not so sure about that.  I found not once and not twice that
lists which hide addresses make it quite hard to contact people
where you may have a legitimate business to them, especially if
you are coming back to some old issues, but do practically nothing
to prevent spam.

Unless this is a throwaway address on which you redirect all
incoming traffic to /dev/null, making impossible to contact you
at all, that address in practice will always "leak out"; quite
often in an unexpected and/or funny way.

On an average week on my various mail accounts about 5500 messages
ends up in /dev/null without even peek.  It does not mean that
I am impossible to contact. :-)

   Michal