I had my name on a thread in the -steer archives of 2006.09.01, along with jhriv, jp, lb, and gkra.
Today I received the email containing this message > i was nice and alerted you about spam on your domain and you expose my > address to spammers!? > http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-steer/2006-September/002752.html > > please make this page (and any on other mail-archives you forwarded that mail > to) disappear asap. > > unfriendly regards, > helge The To: header had all the above listed names (except jp), with multiple addresses for several recipients. <she evidently has some research talents!> Well, I would say *the gripe is valid* in that that our archives have a raw email address in the subject line, and that could be (and maybe has) been harvested by spambots. I guess the software has a mechanism to [mildly] obfuscate email addresses from data -- but (I would guess) it probably doesn't try to modify anything in subject or body. I can envision an argument that diddling email-addresses within the body might have unforseen (undesirable) consequences, but.. ..it seems reasonable to me that it would be worthwhile (and cheap) to look for and _fix_ addresses that inadvertently get into subject lines. I suspect it is a rare occurrence, but still might be useful. As an aside, it might also be useful to have our own little page of recommendations, reminders, and maybe even <sigh> rules that we can refer users to. Can anybody comment on how/whether subject-diddling might be done? Also, should we respond somehow to Helge? Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-Steer@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer