[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:46:16PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
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!
theaimsgroup is the worst, if you want my opinion. Within hours of posting
to a list there, the address I use gets spammed. Tried it many times.
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.
There are many developers who read this list as news; they need gmane.
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!
Can you back up your claim about gmane not hiding the aaddresses? Have you
read
http://gmane.org/tmda.php
No I haven't. I find it rather complicated though.
What do you think of this excerpt:
While the X-Archive header makes all addresses in your message be encrypted,
if somebody on the mailing list responds to your message, it's still likely
that your real email address will be included in the follow-up. It's probably
more useful to switch encryption on for the entire list.
Encription of entire list!?! Sounds like that would solve the exposure of email
addresses for everyone, especially new subscribers; old subscribers are already
exposed until now :(.
Sorry, I'm not an email expert; don't know about setting X-archive fields etc.
I'm only worried about the increasing amount of spam arriving at my inbox (yes,
yes, I use a spam filter.....).
Rob.
By the way: are you "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? It's just there on gmane archive!
