On Monday, Sep 22, 2003, at 12:28 Europe/Copenhagen, Gavin Sinclair 
wrote:
>> It wasn't a conscious decision: I just reflected the e-mail out to
>> usenet as it stood. It struck me that as this was a public mailing
>> list, with no subscription qualifications, then any e-mail address 
>> used
>> was effectively public too.
>
>> I'm open to discussion on this
>
> It wouldn't take much effort to change the email address, would it?
>
>   email.sub(/@/, " (at) ")
>
> And nobody would *complain* that their address was being modified.
>

Well, I wasn't sure - it's sometimes inconvenient dealing with hacked 
e-mail addresses - it means that anyone wanting to send e-mail to a 
poster has to retype.

Might it not be easier to set up a filter so that you only accept mail 
to a particular alias if it comes from ruby-talk?


Cheers


Dave