Jonathan Angliss, [JA] wrote:

JA> Because you can get a spam bot to join a newsgroup, fetch say a
JA> months worth of emails, and harvest away, while mailing list
JA> archives are a lot harder to work on, having to request many pages
JA> usually. Just a thought :) The obfustication is done on the
JA> website only I believe,

Yes.

JA> which means the nntp is wide open.

No.

For NNTP, address encryption is used.

See http://gmane.org/tmda.php

Both addresses in the mail text and addresses in the headers are
encrypted. The way it works is described on the webpage.

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