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Subject: Re: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private email
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Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
>>It would be much better if propagation to the newsgroups and archives 
>>would scramble the private email addresses, to make such lists unusable 
>>for collectors of email addresses for sending spam.
> 
> 
> Trivial to do; just replace "@" with something that a machine cannot 
> easily parse.

LyX (TeX Editor) is also monitored on gmane; my private email
address on lyx/gmane shows up as:

spamrefuse-WhGre650n7FQFI55V6+gNQ@public.gmane.org

Noone who can revert that into a useful email address!

Same should be applied to FreeBSD lists, if you ask me.

Rob.