Your members are relatively secure
Hi ---,
That's a nice looking site you have there. I agree with your sys eng. You have three things going for you:
1. The list is restricted to members only. This means a bot is not going to 'stumble across it'. Someone would have to obtain a membership in order to harvest those email addresses. (a question to ask: how easy is it to obtain a membership?)
2. Even if they can get a membership, nobody is going to sit and manually enter all those email addresses, just so they can spam them.
3. Someone would have to specifically program a bot to convert your email address format into real email addresses. Now, if your list contained hundreds of thousands addresses, a spammer might think it was worth the bother to break in and snag those addresses. But with a much smaller membership, they probably wouldn't think it was worth their bother, even if they did get in.
I hope that is helpful to you.
Best wishes,
Douglas Twitchell
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