Michael Welch writes:
Right, there's lots broken at Topica. But I sure do like the intent
of their obscuration technique.
I don't. What they're obscuring is that it doesn't work.
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Mark Sapiro wrote at 08:58 PM 6/2/2008:
| I think the Topica listserver had a great way to deal with email
| addresses in archives. You could see a semblance of the email address,
| but no way could you deduce the real address. If you are logged into
| the site, each is still obscured, but is
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| If I am not mistaken, I believe that there is currently a wrapper
| script that handles access control to private archives but which gets
| bypassed if the archive is public. The current architecture under
| pipermail is that the
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| I think the Topica listserver had a great way to deal with email
| addresses in archives. You could see a semblance of the email address,
| but no way could you deduce the real address. If you are logged into
| the site, each is still obscured, but
Michael Welch wrote:
Steve Murphy wrote at 10:03 AM 5/23/2008:
I've noticed in the mailman-users archives, that if I view info by
thread (using the mailman archives as an example,) which site is
2.1.10 based, that all email addresses are present, but with a
simple obfuscation. (the @ has
Michael Welch wrote:
[Regarding obscuring email addresses in archives]
I think the Topica listserver had a great way to deal with email
addresses in archives. You could see a semblance of the email address,
but no way could you deduce the real address. If you are logged into the
site, each is
Hello!
I'm quite concerned about what I'm seeing in mailman installations,
and the amount of spam I've been getting because I participate in
mailman based lists!
I'm not talking about halting spam that gets submitted to the list
for mailing. I'm not talking about spambots automatically joining
Hi Steve. Thank you for your email, it is well researched and conveys your
point of view.
Your points on inconsistency in protecting email addresses in the archives
are interesting. Also, I am no lover of spammers.
That said, can you break down your suggestions to those relevant to the
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Steve Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Within MINUTES of my first posting on asterisk-users, I was getting spam
on an email address that was brand-new.
How do you know that it was your archived post that the spammers
picked up on?It is also possible that the
Steve Murphy wrote at 10:03 AM 5/23/2008:
I've noticed in the mailman-users archives, that if I view info by thread
(using the mailman archives as an example,) which site is 2.1.10 based, that
all email addresses are present, but with a simple obfuscation. (the @ has
been changed to at .) I
When creating archives for one of the lists I run (until recently
with another listserv software) I wrote a relatively simple
find/replace grep which replaces the domain names so that email
addresses become [EMAIL PROTECTED] In this case, the list itself is by
invitation only but the archives
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