The addresses are munged on gmane, just a simple look at the html source code (which is what any email address gather would be looking at) can see that. Javascript is then used to unmung the email addresses for viewing. Just because they're not hidden, doesn't mean they're easily accessible to gatherers.
On 6/1/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: >> >> SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: >>> Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> 1995 in fact. >>> >>> On gmane.org? >>> I'll assume that this is a brain fart. > > Yeah, the post I saw was probably due to a broken mailer, as it's replying > to a post from 2003. > > http://search.gmane.org/?query=&email=&group=gmane.org.user-groups.slug.general&sort=revdate&DEFAULTOP=and&xFILTERS=Gorg.user-groups.slug.general---A > >>>>> The email addresses that are published on gmane.org are munged. >>> >>> You might like to look again. I can clearly see everyone's emails. >> I agree with that. It obfuscates the email address when it displays the >> actual post, but the email address is in clear, and hence harvestable, >> when you look at the search lists. > > Which definition of munged are you using? yes it's human readable, but it's > not immediately obvious to a robot that it's an email address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] looks pretty much unmunged and machine readable to me. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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