On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 02:50:59 +0200, Paul Ebermann Paul-Ebermann@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.