Russ, don't be relieved.  This protection *ONLY* applies to the web interface!!!  Ben Parker wrote earlier about this thread:

"The feature being discussed here <[log in to unmask]> applies only to
viewing the list message archives via the WWW interface for lists with
Notebook= ..., Public.   List message archives requested by email
commands will show the actual email addresses."

A non-subscriber can GET or SEARCH the archives with e-mail commands and see all the e-mail addresses.  This would be a better way to harvest addresses anyway if that was your intent.  Of course a crawler wouldn't normally do this.

At 11:36 AM -0300 6/22/06, Russ Hunt wrote
>I'm relieved to find that this actually does seem to be
>confusing to lots of people other than me (I'd thought it was
>just me being dense).
>
>Here's my understanding of this:
>
>Private list, no problem. Only subscribers can see anything.
>
>Public list, anybody can look at messages, but all email
>addresses are masked (thus, no harvesting).
>
>If you want to see the addresses you need to acquire a password.
>My understanding was that you need to be a subscriber to do
>this, but I was apparently wrong: really it makes no practical
>difference; the main issue is that the addresses don't sit on
>the open Web, ripe for harvesting.
>
>Thanks to everybody who helped me with this.
>
>-- Russ
>St. Thomas University
>http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/


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