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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:56:47 +0900
From:      Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private email addresses
Message-ID:  <417B6E4F.4030005@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0410241555030.4807@dave.horsfall.org>
References:  <20041015125113.G68950@mippet.ci.com.au> <20041015092119.GA93093@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <Pine.BSI.4.58.0410162126550.854@dave.horsfall.org> <417B261B.2050201@yahoo.com> <Pine.BSI.4.61.0410241555030.4807@dave.horsfall.org>

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Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
>>It would be much better if propagation to the newsgroups and archives 
>>would scramble the private email addresses, to make such lists unusable 
>>for collectors of email addresses for sending spam.
> 
> 
> Trivial to do; just replace "@" with something that a machine cannot 
> easily parse.

LyX (TeX Editor) is also monitored on gmane; my private email
address on lyx/gmane shows up as:

spamrefuse-WhGre650n7FQFI55V6+gNQ@public.gmane.org

Noone who can revert that into a useful email address!

Same should be applied to FreeBSD lists, if you ask me.

Rob.




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