Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list needs subscription (or alternatively a once-only permission granted for sending emails, without the full subscription). Once that is done, all emails to the list are also archived at 1) www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel 3) gmane.org
(are there more?)
All these archives are publicly available, which means someone can collect the emails from there for third parties spam-junk stuff, if the sender's email address is not hidden; mail-archive and theaimsgroup do this nicely! But here is, I believe, where the trouble with gmane.org starts: all emails are 'as-is' on this archive, nothing is hidden! Which means, it's an excellent source for spam/junk distibutors to add all lyx-devel contributors to their list of email addresses.
So, the carefullness by the subscription mechanism and the mail-archive/theaimsgroup hiding strategy, is made totally redundant by forwarding everything automatically also to the gmane.org. Actually, by forcing the use of a legitimate email address by the subscription mechanism, we are also forced to have our legitimate email address published on the public gmane archive. This is a very bad construction!
Any opinions?
Regards, Rob.
