PC-DOS 3.3

Jim Leonard wrote: Yes, many people don't change private email addresses often - can be quite different for corporate ones though, or addresses that people have munged to avoid the spammers (which is most Usenet users these days apart from the ones using Google's interface - which seems to post with users' real addresses) My point (again) is that say fred at somecompany.com posted something a few years back and I want to contact Fred. In the past, if mail to fred at somecompany.com bounced, I'd find an alternate contact address (email / phone / whatever) for somecompany.com and contact them to see if Fred was still there, just on a different address because the company's chamged their email format. Google revealing the full address *is* useful in that case; if it's masked sufficiently then attempted contact is impossible. I've used that method to successfully contact people quite often in the past; when you're doing historical work it can come in quite useful. No longer possible since Google changed the interface. I said "taken functionality away", not "not useful or functional" - although it's not as functional as it used to be (the fact that the new interface isn't as logical or easy to navigate is a separate issue) Yes, and for a while it was awesome and every credit was due. Then they took functionality away by changing the interface, which is what I'm annoyed about. cheers Jules