On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Okechukwu
<okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
Muchai & Wash,
You don't see a major issue - whereas a spammer can just go to the site and harvest your email address and send you requests to buy vi*gr* which you don't even need? Even mailing list archives all over hide the email addresses to protect the group users from simple scammers - this is the issue, and if you still don't really see the issue, then allow me to share your email address which people who really need it - the scammers :-)
Okechukwu,
Even Mailman (what is used here) when not specifically configured to apply the little obfuscation it does to your e-mail address on the archives, will display your e-mail address as-is. That aside, there is nowhere (could have been part of the footer on all the posts) on this list where there's proclaimed such prohibition. What is public is public.