The mailing list are a public forum.
Let that sink in for a moment.As such, Helge should have been more careful, and not (presumably) put an email address in the Subject: header of an email sent to a mailing list. I can't seem to find the email in question. When was it sent? What was the Message-ID?
We DO NOT CONTROL who, outside of KPLUG's control, has set up or configured archives of our lists. Therefor, the best we can do is delete this person's email from our own archives. However, if Google's already snatched it, there's nothing we can do until it expires from Google's cache.
Gregory On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:12 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
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 messagei 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.htmlplease make this page (and any on other mail-archives you forwarded that mail to) disappear asap.unfriendly regards, helgeThe To: header had all the above listed names (except jp), with multipleaddresses 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 bodymight have unforseen (undesirable) consequences, but.. ..it seems reasonable to me that it would be worthwhile (and cheap) tolook 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
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