Tek 1230 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Jun 2003

On Jun 23, 14:43, Erik Klein wrote:

...
  I've noticed a fair number of these types of posts
lately.  Basically
 it comes down to the address munging that's being done to prevent
 spammers from harvesting is also preventing legitimate browsers from
 identifying the authors of messages individually.

 I'm not sure if anyone wants this fixed, but couldn't we perform some
 form of reversible modification to the email address?  Perhaps turning
...
  cctalk(a)classiccmp.org into
cctalk2003ATclassiccmpDOTorg would fool the
...
  harvesters and allow people to reply to an individual.

I'd like to see it fixed.  I've had occasional useful contacts from
people who've seen my address in the archive, and I'd rather see it
munged in some human-reversible way than simply replaced with the
mailing list address.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York