From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-30T21:32:14+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: newsgroup GW

On Monday, December 30, 2002, 11:21:08 PM, Wai-Sun wrote:

> Since the mailing list is auto-gatewayed to c.l.r, all our email 
> addresses are also being displayed out in hostile Usenet, openly and 
> nakedly.

> Are there any precautions taken by the gateway program (I guess not, as 
> I can see my email address in any newsreader), or any being planned?


Careful, you didn't create a new thread.

AFAIR, someone - most likely Dave - acknowledged this issue a while
back, and the ambient suggestion was to mangle email addresses of ML
participants on the way to the NG.

Dave suggested someone suggest something concrete or post some code,
and the issue then lost currency.

My memory on all this is fuzzy, BTW.  Anyway, I suggest that you
examine the gateway code (it's in The Ruby Way) and post a patch.
That might get the issue taken seriously again.

BTW, if you haven't received acres of spam in your inbox yet, don't
worry: you will :)

Cheers,
Gavin