Matt Kraai said: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:09:16AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > Examples of effective privacy measures for mailing list archives > > include: > > * restricting archive access to list members > > * not restricting access, but using the HTTP password mechanism > > to discourage spiders (e.g. perforce-users mailing list) > > * simply obscuring all email addresses in message headers or trailers > > That last countermeasure is my favorite one, since it means that > > Google will still have full access to the info in the list archive. > > > > I would greatly appreciate it if debian.org would institute one of > > the above spam countermeasures (preferably the last one). > > I understand that overly harsh spam countermeasures would be > > harmful to normal discourse, but I trust some useful middle > > ground can be found. > > We know. See > > http://bugs.debian.org/166028 > > Matt > -- > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Debian GNU/Linux Peon
Also the mailing lists disclaimer: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/disclaimer That doesn't mean that the problem won't be fixed, just that everyone has to agree on a solution first. See debates in this list's archives every time someone posts a big screaming rant demanding that their email address be removed from the entire set of Debian archives (note: your email was not a screaming rant and is probably one of the most polite and level-headed received thus far). Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
