From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T19:28:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Real emails on newsgroup version (was Re: POP3Filter)

On Monday, September 22, 2003, 8:02:37 PM, Dave wrote:


> 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

It wouldn't take much effort to change the email address, would it?

  email.sub(/@/, " (at) ")

And nobody would *complain* that their address was being modified.

Gavin