On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:32:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 09:53:32PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > If you want to prevent spam, address your local legislators. > > Well, at least gmane does offer a good solution: encrypt the email addresses > (but they stay functional). > > I just asked gmane's maintainer if this encryption interferes with > newsreading. If not, I think we can safely consider it.
Here is his reply: =============================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am the admin for the lyx lists archived at gmane. Does the encryption of > a list (to hide addresses) affect newsreading negatively in any way? Well, it makes addresses look kinda ugly, but other than that, nothing much is affected. People who are used to scoring/killing on addresses may be inconvenienced, but they can score/kill on names instead. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen =================================== What do you think? One possibility is that I implement the encryption of emailaddresses at gmane, and if people do not like it, I just turn it off. Mate