13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
11:43 p.m.
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 18:33, Jules Richardson wrote:
Google's masking of the address seems to be either
one of two things:
1) Dumbing down of the medium in order to provide for idiots with no
common sense.
2) Typical corporate mentality; force users to use Google's interface
rather than their own email client in order to contact people.
I'm pretty sure it's #3:
3) Prevent spammers from acquiring email addresses from the google
usenet archive.
Would you rather have absolutely none of the old posts that they now
have indexed and freely available, or deal with not having email
addresses available?
Personally, I find the content of usenet posts generally to be more
useful than the From: address on them...
Pat
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