On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 02:50:59 +0200, Paul Ebermann <Paul-Ebermann(a)gmx.de>
gave utterance to the following:
"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 ...
So the archive should be taken offline until it can be rewritten with all
email addresses either encrypted or munged (global substitution of the
last four characters of any string containing @ other than in the first or
last character with .... should work.
The address I post to these groups with is spam free, and I'd like to keep
it that way because the traffic is far to high to have to pass it through
mailwasher.
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Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried