On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:50:25 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

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What happens when someone sees an address in the archive six months from now and needs to contact that author?

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Is that really a valid and interesting case that can't be (usually) handled by posting directly to the list?

No, but it's something that happens often enough that I have to worry about it, and not often enough that I consider it a showstopper.

<nod> Different loads.

How about the CGI business as a solution? You can do that without exposing the address and while doing due diligence on constraining abuse.

ObNote: Apple runs a large enough mail ship that its an attractive target in and of itself should you do an automated system like this. *THAT* is painful as you can't insert enough entropy into the UI behavior without becoming either mappable or unusable -- which basically means you end up doing something like a TMDA filter which holds the message for the final recipient for a week or so...which makes havoc of your storage and bandwidth budgets...

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