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

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Logajan  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>So what do people think? Shall we automatically munge? If we do, any 
>suggestions on preferred methods (keeping in mind the tips provided in the 
>munging URL I included)?

I think it makes a lot more sense for munging to be done per-poster,
not per-newsgroup, so a newsgroup-level solution is at the wrong end.
Posters here who are worried about their address being harvested will
still have to deal with the problem in posting to any other groups
that don't automatically munge, and other posters (like me) would
actually prefer their address not to be munged even if it can be done
with no effort on their part. Also, there are more posters than
newsgroups, and diversity in anti-spam measures makes things harder
for the spammers.

That's my two cents, anyway. (-: If the consensus is against me, I'll
still be happy to participate in these fora; the munging issue is not
that big a deal to me.

-- Mark