Quoting Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@foobar.com:
I dont mind strangers talking to me. But what i mind is spam bots sending spam to my mailbox. Gmail does a decent job of keeping spam out. But a lot of it is getting through as well. Its better to try and keep things safe than be sorry. If the MUA is faulty or as you stated Gmail quotes email addresses, then mailman could be a line of defense to keep email addresses being displayed in the message body.
I for one, do not think its a good idea to edit message bodies. And i fail to understand the logic behind only editing the message body. If the spambot has access to the entire email, then it has access to message headers as well as message body.
Why does mailman obfuscate the email addresses in the headers? ( user@[EMAIL-PROTECTED] ) in the archives? Obviously preventing spam is a goal, right? Well, if it can protect addresses in the headers then it _should_ do the same even in the email's body. Not doing so can be
In the archives too, we only have edited From: fields. And that too because of popular demand. We do not have lossy editing of message body in archives.
Anurag