[Discuss] Increased Spam

[John Blomfield]

I have noticed an increase in the amount of spam over the last two 
months and so out of curiosity I googled my name.  The result was the 
VLUG site and my name and email address.  However, before composing this 
email this morning I again googled my name and it was nowhere on the any 
of the first few pages. 

My concern is that having member's email addresses on a public site 
allows web crawling software to easily increase the bad guy's spam 
lists.  But I am mystified over the sudden disappearance of my reference 
on Google.  However I still think this is still a concern and would 
propose that members email addresses should only be visible on the 
Discuss email lists and not on the public sections of the VLUG website.  
Is it possible to use the sort of software used by many Linux forums 
that hide individual's names and addresses but still send notification 
of incoming emails to members.

Any views?

John Blomfield