Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| 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?
IMHO as it should be.
--
Lgb
