That's the logical progression of that argument, and is the good reason why obfuscation or even removal of parts is not only a good idea, its a necessity. Exposing raw email addresses in their normal form is real low-hanging fruit.
Regardless of what I think, my clients will cry bloody murder if emails leak out. I had one person recently google their email address, and found a link to an archive file that should have been private. I had removed all links to the archives, but somehow Google found it, indexed it, and the guy threatened me with bloody murder if I didn't take it down. Sheesh. Bob ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> To: Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:46:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Proposed: remove address-obfuscation code from Mailman 3 > Something else that occurs to me. > > If we accept that obfuscation is worthless and stop doing it, then > there's no reason we shouldn't make the raw mbox files available for > anyone to download. Mailman used to do this, but we removed the > feature due to user outcry. Now you can download the gzip monthly > .txt files, but they are sanitized. If we stop obfuscating, is > there any reason not to make the raw messages available for download? > > -Barry ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
