There were no counter-arguments to the below after allowing a reasonable waiting period. Lars & co., please turn off the encryption. Thanks.
>>>>> "BA" == Ben Armstrong >>>>> <[email protected]> writes: BA> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:38 +0800 BA> [email protected] wrote: >> Can the administrator of debian-eeepc-devel please give permission so I >> can ask gmane to turn off address encryption on >> http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/ >> It is driving me nuts and other debian groups are not encrypted on gmane. BA> Huh. I don't recall requesting the creation of debian-eeepc-devel at BA> gmane. And if someone asked me on the list or on irc, I have no log of BA> the conversation. BA> That being said, if we have a consensus that it should be turned off, BA> as the list administrator, I can presumably contact gmane to make BA> changes, as per: BA> http://gmane.org/faq.php BA> I'm a list administrator, and I don't think you should archive BA> my list. BA> No problem. Just send a mail to Lars, and he'll remove the BA> list. BA> Well, we don't want the list removed, just a setting changed. BA> This page gives details about address obfuscation. BA> http://gmane.org/tmda.php BA> So, let's discuss this, shall we? It seems like a reasonable request, BA> given that: BA> 1. If a particular user does want their address to still be obfuscated BA> in gmane, they can make use of "X-Archive: encrypt". BA> 2. Since our publicly-accessible mailman/pipermail archives only mildly BA> obfuscate addresses in an easily crackable form (by using " at " BA> instead of "@"), one could argue the addresses are already out there for BA> harvesting anyway, so having the addresses obfuscated by gmane doesn't BA> actually help very much. BA> Any counter-arguments? BA> Ben BA> -- BA> ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [email protected] BA> \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [email protected] BA> ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
