texinfo @ mangling

[Mark Polesky]

Is there a way to bypass the automatic "obscuring" of email
addresses on any of the mailing list servers?  Most texinfo
patches end up mangled in the archives, and this is
unfortunate; some good patches can become lost forever, and
some valuable discussion/explanation from the past may be
rendered unintelligible.

Mailing list posts (even *this* one) that contain the
pattern [character][at-sign][character] are only reliably
stored in the inboxes of the subscribers, if they haven't
already deleted them, that is.

For example, in a recent patch, this line*:
address@hidden Other programs can export LilyPond code

*(that's "[hyphen][at-sign]subheading Other...")

...was archived variously as:

address@hidden Other programs can export LilyPond code
- <at> subheading Other programs can export LilyPond code
address@hidden Other programs can export LilyPond code

...on these respective archives:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-09/txtBBpo0VN51d.txt
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/30791
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30847.html

Perhaps this is a tame example, but it means that the
archived copies of most (if not all) texinfo patches will
fail to compile.  In simple cases, something could be
deduced and manually repaired, but it seems to me that most
cases are not simple.

Has anyone else found this personally frustrating?
Can anything be done about it?

- Mark