From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T19:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Real emails on newsgroup version (was Re: POP3Filter)


On Saturday, Sep 20, 2003, at 21:47 Europe/Copenhagen, Ben Giddings 
wrote:

> This whole worm thing brings up a question:
>
> Why is it that those of us who use this as a mailing list, rather than 
> a newsgroup, have our email addresses passed on to the newsgroups 
> unchanged?  Is this a conscious design decision or a bug?
>
> If it's a design decision, why???
>

It wasn't a conscious decision: I just reflected the e-mail out to 
usenet as it stood. It struck me that as this was a public mailing 
list, with no subscription qualifications, then any e-mail address used 
was effectively public too.

I'm open to discussion on this


Cheers


Dave