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"Richard B Baird" <rbaird@esourceconsulting.com> wrote in message OF79D2620D.FF102C58-ON05256B96.0045802A@esourceconsulting.com">news:OF79D2620D.FF102C58-ON05256B96.0045802A@esourceconsulting.com... > Just the same, email address farming is a valid concern. The archives > don't list our email addresses (replaced with me@xxxxxxxx). can we treat > email addresses the same way when it posts to the newsgroup? As with the mailing list, you have to post from a subscribed email address ... so unless subscribe with an obfuscated email address, it's not possible.. > spiders can find news servers - advertised or not, and harvest email > addresses automatically - private or not. maybe we are already exposed > due to the mailing list, but I'd like to contain that exposure as much as > possible. Actually, spiders don't find news servers ... they don't connect the same way that web pages do. If someone wants to farm a news group, then they have to do it explicitly. david
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