Re: email obscuring

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > Any idea why Robert Haas's email address is not obscured in this
>> > posting:
>> >
>> >        http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00292.php
>> >
>> >        From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hmm, that's annoying.  Although, I've been winning the lottery (mostly
>> the British lottery) about 10 times a week lately, so overall my luck
>> seems to be holding.
>
> Sorry :-(
>
> Something I have learned about spammers lately is that it is enough for
> you to subscribe to a list and they will start sending stuff to you.
> You don't need to post anything.  I'm not sure that email obscuring in
> archives of any use anymore.

It can't hurt, though.  By what mechanism would they obtain the
subscribers to an email list?

...Robert