Re: email addresses in texinfo

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bruno, Karl,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:30:38PM CET:
> Karl Berry wrote to bug-gnulib:
> >     address@hidden<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>}.
> >     address@hidden@code{<bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>}}.
> > 
> > Personally, I don't see a reason not to use @email here.  That's why it
> > exists.
> 
> How can @email be combined with anti-spam devices? The more an email address
> is mentioned on the web, the more it attracts spam, and the more spam passes
> the spam filters.

FWIW, I kinda doubt this makes any difference for gnu.org mailing list
addresses (and I have a small doubt about your last implication), with
the address being up on the gnulib home page anyway.

Since I can't prove this though, here's another argument: be kind to
your users by making it easy for them to respond.  The listhelper is
quite powerful in killing virtually all spam (thanks Bruce and Karl!),
so for me, the increase in work resulting from more spam is pretty much
negligible (ignoring the computing resources needed for mail volume for
a moment).

Just my humble 2 cents,
Ralf