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[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, Jakub Jelinek via Overseers wrote:

> 5) emails used to be sanitized against harvesters, now they aren't

The pipermail munging feature was unusably bad (it messed up Texinfo diffs 
very badly, including in the mbox version of the archive, e.g. "+@node" at 
the start of a line was interpreted as an email address).

I'm very doubtful that munging that produces human-readable results 
actually does anything against harvesters.  Spammers happily send mail to 
addresses that don't exist at all (taken from message-ids, using random 
names as local-parts, etc.); I expect they'll happily try generating 
addresses from " at ".

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com