Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private emailaddresses

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Rob
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 1:57 AM
> To: FreeBSD
> Subject: Re: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private
> emailaddresses
>
>
> 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 at public.gmane.org
>
> Noone who can revert that into a useful email address!
>
> Same should be applied to FreeBSD lists, if you ask me.
>

Is it really too much to assume that if a person is smart enough to
figure out how to subscribe to the mailing list that they have had
enough experience with mailing lists to have learned that if they
are concerned about spam to just use a throwaway e-mail address?

Ted