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On Sunday 01 February 2004 16:01, Peter Wu wrote:
> > Google doesn't.  A couple of mailing list archivers archive the gentoo
> > lists, and google harvests the data just like it does any other data on
> > the web. Anything in the archives, of course, can be harvested by
> > malicious spammers.  I'm surprised that my address is not harvested more
> > often than it is.
>
> Can anyone from Gentoo.org to talk to Gentoo so that the email address is
> masked when gated to the newsgroup archive on Google?

Gentoo.org IS gentoo.
And no, they can't, they don't operate the mail -> news gateway.
It's also totally irrelevant anyway, as there is little doubt that spammers 
are subscribed to the group. There are also at least 2 mail -> web gateways 
archiving the list, and not munging addresses.

I hate spam as much as the next guy, but once they've got your address there 
is little you can do, either ignore it, or filter it.

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Mike Williams
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