At 13:16 -0400 22.10.2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Martin Trautmann <traut@gmx.de> writes:
>> I was surprised to find out that all email is forwarded to the usenet by a
>> mail2news gateway in news:muc.lists.netbsd.*
>>
>> This will provide a simple way for spammers to extract valid and really
>> used email adresses.
>
>They could just get them out of our online archives.

As mentionned before: they are slightly encoded in the online archives (@
replaced by numerical value)

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