John wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] An MS-DOS equivalent to "whereis"' on Sun, Jan 08 at 07:17:
> So how is putting the same email address 
> in the body of the message any different?  (I'm not arguing the issue -- 
> I really don't understand the difference.)

Well, some mailing list archive software will archive only the body
and teh sender's name, or otherwise obscure the full headers.  Almost
all of them, if they do any obfscation, do that.  However, not many
that I'm aware of go to any lengths to obscure anything in the message
body.  So, though your address is present in the headers *and* body,
it may well only be obscured in the headers.

Not that it makes much of a difference, since your address is
probably available somewhere else anyway. :)  I've pretty much given
up on the hope that spammers won't get my address, instead choosing to
use specific addresses for specific tasks so I can identify the source
of the spam, and running strong anti-spam filters.  About 85% or so of
the incoming mail traffic on my home mail server is spam.  That's out
of a couple thousand messages/day.  The filter has missed one spam in
the last two weeks.  IMHO, that's more effective than wasting time
trying to obscure an email address...

--Danny
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