David Abrahams wrote:
Right. ah2003@gmx.net is a disposable address. I'd definitely disable it and create a new one, which I would then publish only obfuscated.
It's very strange, since we have this option enabled in Mailman:
obscure_addresses (privacy): Show member addresses so they're not directly recognizable as email addresses?
Setting this option causes member email addresses to be transformed when they are presented on list web pages (both in text and as links), so they're not trivially recognizable as email addresses. The intention is to prevent the addresses from being snarfed up by automated web scanners for use by spammers
Right, this avoids problems with bots harvesting web pages. It does not avoid problems with bots harvesting newsgroups. Moreover, when people use news readers like OE, then the email addresses in downloaded messages end up trivially recognizable on their hard drives. As I explained in my original post this becomes more and more of a problem (viruses that suck email addresses from newsgroup archives). Regards, Andreas