Talk:Email address use

I think it'd be safe to encourage people to change "foobar@freegeek.org" to "foobar at freegeek dot org" since no information is lost. A basic concept of a wiki is to enocuarage everyone to fix it where possible, not to create more work for the admins. RfS 19:12, 9 Dec 2005 (PST)

the risk of doing it that way

I agree, ease-of-use and utility are of very high importance. But how effective would that rule be? A study at Berkeley determined that it's not hard for "spambots" to crack codes like this. (I don't know if it's possible to determine how widespread this technique is.)

So I still think it's a bad idea for people to put more than the occasional email address in, even obscured like that. I think using a wiki page as an email list ought to be discouraged, since there are better tools out there.--Pete 19:38, 9 Dec 2005 (PST)

Here is a Berkeley spam harvest study.

Version edited for brevity and relevance by Pete: Berkely spam harvest study excerpt