On 23 Apr 2012, at 12:28, John Ackers wrote:
> I would be quite interested to hear from whoever manages the mailman service.
> Are email addresses only exposed on this server or on all servers running
> mailman? I think the latter is unlikely.
Any site with a public mailman archive displays the email addresses, in an
altered form. Here's the archive copy for your mail that I am now replying to:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2012-April/008112.html
As you can see, the email address is not directly specified there, and clicking
it gives the address of the mailing list, not your email address.
Here's a mailman archive from python:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-crypto/2012-March/001160.html
Or wikipedia:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2012-April/072886.html
Or putty: http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/2011/000016.html
Or canonical:
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/000938.html
They all appear to display addresses in an identical manner.
All the emails our mailman server send out include a link at the footer to
enable you to unsubscribe. That link includes your email address slightly
encoded, as you can see. If you reply to the email and don't cut that
unsubscribe line in your reply, then your email address (though still encoded)
will be included in the body of the email as well as in the From line at the
top. That is why the links do not immediately unsubscribe you as people seem to
include them in their replies quite a bit. Hope that helps explain.
ATB,
Matthew
> I believe that people that run large lists complain that a lot of their email
> is caught up in spam filters which is why they usually urge their subscribers
> to add the originators email to their address books.
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