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Re: Spam because of this list



On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:16:57AM -0600, kosh wrote:
> On Monday 06 October 2003 09:19, Antiphon wrote:
> 
> > It is bad practice that the Debian listservs do not munge addresses. I
> > realise that munging may not be implemented because people like to be able
> > to respond to old threads privately but simply providing a mechanism as
> > simple as spelling out domain suffixes and removing at signs would do the
> > job nicely.
> 
> I disagree with this idea and I don't want the addresses munged. It is very 
> useful being able to reply to someone and I will just hit reply to reply to 
> someone. If the mail bounces I won't waste any more time contacting them. 
> Overall not one list that I am on munges email addresses and when people do 
> it to their own addresses they often end up getting no help at all. I see 
> that on the python and zope lists a fair bit.

Also how would munging help anyway when you have the unmunged addresses
easily available at:

http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.maint.kde

Chris

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