In article <20040205224310.9176429517@grok.beer.org>, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Art Lemasters <slemas1@mindspring.com>  wrote:
> > And there's no reason, IMO, that our e-mail addresses should be
> > visible at all in the Web archive.  Existing archives could be
> > parsed to remove parts of all e-mail addresses, too, no?
> 
> I don't think anyone is arguing that it can't be done or can't be
> done easily.  I think the decision whether to do it is stuck in some
> admin group within the project.

You would also need to persuade all other archives to do something
similar.  Ones I know of are:

  http://news.gw.com/ (aka news.netbsd.org)
  http://news.gmane.org/

I'm sure there are more.

I think a simpler approach is just to treat public mailing lists as
what they are:  a public forum.

  Alan