Here's a rumor saying they won't be switching to flash: [link]

Someone should totally deathmatch the rumors sites. Engadget could be the referee.

Makes a whole lot of sense -- it's been rumored for a while now, they've had a lot of success with the flash-based Nano, and it's been rumored for even longer that flash rather than hard drives will be the direction for portable devices (including lightweight laptops) as larger amounts of flash storage get cheaper.

That all makes sense; I just didn't know flash prices had come down enough for that to happen now.

I think it's a combo of flash prices coming down and Apple discovering that the market for the really big iPods isn't as large at the smaller sized ones. I suspect we might see a switch to more flash based stuff, but that the memory sizes are going to come back down for a while.

I'd love to have a 200 GB iPod, but I just don't think I'm going to be seeing one for a while.

I'd like to make it pretty simple to send email to my provocateuse dealio (BTW, Dreamhost has been beyond great for them, and they get more traffic than I'd dreamed possible), but I'm getting torrents of spam, since I have simple mailto links in the HTML.

I want to change the submission addresses, so at least the spam will bounce around somewhere else--but "provocateuse" is a bitch of a word that I'd rather not have people retype. Am I SOL? I can't think of any way to make it machine readable, but not, you know, machine readable.

Well I don't know what to call it, but set up a Gmail address. They have best freakin spam filters I've every encountered. You will get almost no spam in your inbox, and while you will have to check your spam filter for false positives, there won't be many.

Gmail have had a million and a half (okay, perhaps I mean ten) false positives for me lately. But I guess I could forward them to a gmail address and then grab them back from there.

I did some reading up on obfuscation, but it's so hard to tell which ones the spammers have rendered useless.

Thing is, mostly my emails are going to be "Trent Reznor is HAWT!!!!" and have six image attachments. It's a miracle my current filters catch any, but don't catch too many.

Yeah, that is bit harder to filter.

One other possibility. could you put your address with some extraneous stuff in the mailto?

hotpictureERASETHIS@myaddressDELETETHIS.com

with instructions. I imagine most people will be able to edit the "to" line in the email do change it to a valid address, and while some robots can too, not most.

I'm going to test the Gmail thing for a week or two, and if that doesn't pan out use the "delete me" in addition to some code obfuscation.

There has to be a point at which they don't care, right?

Pfft. Who am I kidding?

Re: The flash thing. I actually like the idea that somebody on AppleRumors came up with - one that's 32 GB of Flash, one that's a 160 GB 1.8" hard drive. Same price. Pick lighter, more durable, thinner, and better battery life, or pick much more space.

I'd be really, really torn. All my music fits fine on 32 GB of flash, but not much space for delicious video. I'd have to weight the options carefully.