Re: Policy change? Was: Moderator note: Newsgroup participants under virus attack

"James Logajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Well folks, it sure looks like many of the victims of the Swen virus are
> Usenet posters (based on my own anecdotal "evidence").

I am getting more than 5 meg/hour into my yahoo account, which has literally
killed that email address for me. I was hoping that thing would calm down
after people began fixing the problem on their computers. HA! The problem
just gets worse and worse. Yahoo has not been of any help, they seem to have
an unlimited supply of lengthy form letters with the same theme: "We can't
help you, but here is a potential solution to another problem you don't
have."

I will say, however, that I did have that *free* yahoo address for years and
I always appreciated that service. Its wouldn't be right for me to take my
frustration out on Yahoo.

> Mike suggested in a
> private e-mail that we (the moderators) automatically "munge" the e-mail
> addresses of all approved messages.

Well, some people are for it and some against. If somebody wants their email
address posted to the group, that's their decision. My suggestion is that us
moderators issue a one-time advisory to first time posters with non-munged
email addresses.

We would then need to either put a hold on the subject post until we got a
response from the poster, or do a one-time munge of their email address
together with a moderators note stating how and why we altered the original
post.

Vell?

Mike