[web-team] svlug mailing list archives vs spam

[John Lawless]

     While trying to figure out why some of my email addresses get so
much more spam than others, I found that lists.svlug.org has e-mail
addresses for mailing list users unobscured on the web site such as in
this html fragment:

  <H1>[svlug] Disk Partitioning again
   </H1>
    <B>John Lawless
    </B>
    <A HREF="mailto:jlawless%40redwoodscientific.com"
       TITLE="[svlug] Disk Partitioning again">jlawless at redwoodscientific.com
       </A><BR>

     May I suggest some changes?  First, it seems to me that
"href=mailto:" tags are unnecessary.  It is an obvious invitation to
spammers.  If any human wants to e-mail me, they can cut and paste the
address.  (I know that "%40" for "@" used to fool spammer's
robots but spammers do get smarter as time goes on.)  Secondly, the
plain text part should have some obscuration added.  I would suggest,
for example, adding random spaces into the address.  Any human capable
of using Linux would immediately remove spaces but the spaces would
likely leave robots hopelessly confused.

     This e-mail address does get a lot more spam than my others.
I and, I'm sure, many other svlug mailing list users would greatly
appreciate your help on this.

Thanks,

John