[mythtv-users] Is MythTV an open forwarder? (was Re: OT: Spam?]

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:58:28PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> Not to mention something like that would make it hard to determine how
>> much credence to give a response or whether to ignore a message because
>> it's from that annoying Mike Dean guy or whatever.
>
> Much worse: there have been half a dozen instances in the last 10
> years where I've gotten useful information from Googling a mailing list
> archive, and writing to someone who posted half a solution 2 years ago.
>
> If the archive hid their addresses, I would have been up the
> metaphorical creek.

Same here.

I like the way the gossamer threads archive obfuscates the email
address, it isn't there in plain text, it shows a captcha style
graphic. I know that can probably be broken, but its better than plain
text.