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

I got... and this isn't an exaggeration... 31 Swen virus emails yesterday.


James Logajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Just a late followup on this: I'm still getting a lot of Swen generated 
> junk into my e-mail address, but a spam filter is catching it so it isn't 
> as big a problem as it was. Hopefully others have found some way to cope 
> (cause it sure looks like the owners of many of the infected hosts aren't 
> doing anything to eradicate the virus from their machines).
> 
> Anyway, since the response to the proposal has been mixed I haven't 
> implemented any automatic munging of e-mail addresses. Such a mechanism 
> might be of use to posters who must post with valid addresses for one 
> reason or another, but if they ask us to munge the address for them before 
> we approve their post, then I see no reason why we can't oblige.