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

On 24 Sep 2003 07:27:01 GMT, James Logajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I can modify the moderation software to do this, but I think it needs some 
>discussion and general agreement. Typical problems: it would be easy to 
>forget to "de-munge" an address when replying to a poster by direct e-mail. 
>Also, if a poster already has a munged address, additional munging may 
>sometimes make reconstruction of the original ambiguous. And lastly, this 
>is a clear case of closing the proverbial barn door after the horses have 
>fled. But, alas, another virus or worm writer will come along at some 
>future point to harvest addresses again, so I don't think it will be a 
>futile effort.
>
>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)?

Thanks for the link to the URL on mail munging.  My vote is that we do
not do any automatic munging, mostly because of the potential problem
(which you state) of making reconstruction harder if the address is
already munged. I think it should be left to each poster to decide if
he or she wants to munge their own return e-mail address, which I will
do as soon as this message is posted. :-) 

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Vic Roberts