<p>Today i wondered why i get so much spam. Well it's simple, load you google, hit the query with my mail address (the one at free.fr), and you'll get about 300 results.</p> <p>Most of those results are Debian related, i used to maintain a Debian package. So, sp4mmers, if you want to sell more vi4gra or whatever, have a look at <a class="reference" href="http://debian.nctu.edu.tw/debian-amd64/debian-pure64/indices/Maintainers">this one</a> for instance.</p> <p>I don't understand, there are thousands of Debian developers out there, and nobody tried to solve the problem of email address collecting ?</p> http://base-art.net/Articles/55/ 2005-08-16T10:22:08.000001+01:00 http://base-art.net/Comments/161/ phil <p>I understand this problem has no trivial solution. One could be to avoid direct contact between maintainers and users. All mails would be relayed by Debian which would build a black/white list...</p> 2005-08-16T09:11:09.000001+01:00 http://base-art.net/Comments/160/ bignose <p>It's a hard problem to solve. The more you do to obscure an email address, the more barriers you put in the way of legitimate email. It doesn't take much of a barrier before the email address is completely unusable for very useful purposes, and a pain in the rear for most others.</p> <p>In the case of a package maintainer, you want that email address to be as usable as possible.</p>