Gus Wirth wrote: >.. > 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.
That's the main point I was groping with. I need to study English, some day. I note that the obfuscation of archived messages seem to have improved recently (since September). I also just verified that subject lines are NOT modified in the archives, as of today. > > 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. I would agree that it's unreasonable to attempt to fix or delete old archives. My question still stands: could we [in the future] do something about subject lines in our archives? Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-Steer@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
