Michael Knight wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#E-mail_masking
> 
> "To prevent scammers or spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses from a
> group, Google replaces the last three letters of a username in an e-mail
> address with periods. To view the full e-mail address, one has to click
> on the periods and enter a verification code to prove they are human,
> after which a page will load with the full e-mail addresses displayed."

Which just means that you will now get 62**3[1] pieces of junk mail
flooding your mailserver as spammers just work through the variations.

[1] just how many symbols are there allowed in email addresses?
0-9,a-z,A-Z, ?????


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