From: Jason Williams <jason@...>
Date: 2003-09-22T20:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Real emails on newsgroup version (was Re: POP3Filter)

In article <103574104.20030922202634@soyabean.com.au>, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>> 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.

Unless they're one of the people who has weird opinions like "hitting
reply in the newsreader should do the right thing".