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[Cere M. Davis]

why don't you put in behind the UWIDNet system?  Or am I missing something
here...
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:32:07AM -0800, M. Hornung wrote:
> > Hiya.  I'm planning to do some New Year updating to my linux at u archive
> > (more useful format, software update, general cleanup, etc).  It's been
> > brought to my attention that some people might like it if email addresses
> > of subscribers were obscured in the archive.  How do people feel about
> > that?  I'll go with the consensus.
>
> I'm really opposed to it.  There have been a number of times when I've
> found some information on a mailing list archive through google, wanted
> to follow up on it, and was unable to because there was no way to mail
> them.
>
> Hiding your address is just a temporary measure against spam.  If you
> keep and use the same address for long enough you'll eventually get
> spam, and it's better to deal with that as a certainty than try to avoid
> it.
>
> (All IMHO, of course. :P)
>
>

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		        Cere Davis
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