Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
> Lutz-Peter Hooge wrote in message ...
>> To the creators of the web-interface: Why is this config-page
>> necessary anyway?
>> IMO it should just display the newsgroups with the default settings
>> if it doesn't find a cookie and have just an OPTIONAL link somewhere
>> to the config-page.
>
> This is to keep spammers from scanning the newsgroup web interface for
> e-mail addresses.

why go to all that trouble when they could just harvest directly from the
newsgroups


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