On Aug 28, 2005, at 3:03 PM, James Newtons Massmind wrote: > for some reason I thought we might be BETTER THAN THAT! > Illegitimi non carborundum... The possibility; even the probability; of failure doesn't mean you shouldn't TRY... More to the point; it's a common precept in security that solutions that don't provide "real" security are completely useless. I disagree completely. Any bar, no matter how low, will stop some attackers, and since maliciousness is not necessarily correlated with technical expertise, it might even stop the important attackers... Keeping email id's out of the officially advertised PIC archive is a good thing. Requesting that other publicly accessible archives do the same (or shutdown) is worthwhile, but you need not be too obnoxious or worried about it. Spammers COULD harvest email addresses by subscribing to targeted lists and getting the mail directly. But they don't. They can't be bothered (in general) figuring out which lists would be worthwhile. It is essentially definitive of "spam" that the recipients are NOT "targeted" (merely harvested?) - if all the "spam" I got was both vaguely of interest and not infinitely repeated, I'd be a happy man! BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist