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