Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
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.
[snip]
It looks like jhriv is the one who put the e-mail address in the Subject
line of the originating message, looking back through the thread.
Although you are correct in that the lists are a public forum, it is
evident that we do try to do some minimal obfuscation to protect e-mail
addresses. Evidently, the list manager doesn't look in the subject line
since that's not an obvious place to look.
However, I don't think that retroactively going back and changing things
is a good idea. The possibility of hosing history outweighs any
insignificant advantage to Helge. If she is on some spammer's list then
I feel her pain, but deleting our archives isn't going to remove her
from their lists. I wonder if she puts as much effort into tracking down
the bad guys.
Gus
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