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On Monday 19 April 2004 Geoffrey wrote:
| > William Wylde wrote:
| >
| >> Why bother to obfucate at all?  Why not just write a little script that
| >> removes the e-mail addresses from the posts in the archive?
| >
| > Why have an archive?
| >


I am not a programmer, but isn't it possible to reduce
<name at mydomain.whatever> to <name> (that is erase everything
beginning with the @ symbol from the FROM: line of the headers)
in the archives?  That way the curious could search the
archive for a topic and if they have unanswered questions, they
could pose a question to the list.
Example:
  "Three months back Geoffrey explained foo, but I still have
   a question about bar."

This way no critical data would be lost but the addresses would
not be so easily reaped by spammers and their minions.

Just a thought.

Sean

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