[ILUG] [TOTD] Your e-mail as a small PNG

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Barry O'Donovan (ilug at barryodonovan.com):

> Well my editor over at the Linux Gazette uses a neat little utility 
> called text2gif (from libungif-progs) and ImageMagick to produce small 
> (<300 bytes) images of an e-mail addresses (see 
> http://linuxgazette.net/authors/odonovan.html for an example).

I actually would have preferred that Ben Okopnik (editor) have _omitted_
that obfuscation technique from http://linuxgazette.net/authors/moen.html , 
at least, because I don't believe in hiding from spammers -- and so told
him, but didn't insist on being a unique exception to his policy, which 
would have been prima-donna-ish, indeed.

My own policy (and that of many friends such as Don Marti[1]) is
reflected in places like:

http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug
http://linuxmafia.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conspire

[1] http://lists.svlug.org/archives/web-team/2004-September/001895.html:

"It is SVLUG policy never to obscure any email address
to hide from spammers.  When you let the abusers of
a medium shape your use of the medium, you lose.

This request has come up before and it has been
denied.

If you don't know how to filter out problem mail,
a post to the mailing list asking about mail filters
for Linux would be on-topic."

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