[Wikipedia-l] Re: mangle addresses

Tue Aug 26 00:50:59 UTC 2003

"Walter Vermeir" skribis:

> Matthew Woodcraft [...] wrote [...]
> 
> > Gustav Foseid wrote:
> >> It was gmane that that mangled the address.
> > 
> > Why don't we turn that feature off? It's clear that it can cause
> > confusion, and we don't mangle addresses in the web archives of the
> > lists.
> 
> If there is support for it I can ask gmane to swith it off. But this is not 
> a good idea i find.
> 
> The email adress is not realy mangled but "encrypted". [...]
> It is a very good anti-spam function and you still can send a email to 
> person. It is one the reasons i like the gmane acces to much, your email 
> adress is save from spammers.

As Matthew said:

> > we don't mangle addresses in the web archives of the lists.

So the spammers could get your adress anyway ...

If you want to switch it off:

http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc&edit=t

(No need to "ask gmane to switch it off",
 you can do it yourself.)

Paul