On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:24 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: > On Thu Oct 07 2010 15:18:23 GMT-0700 (PDT) Scott Furry wrote: > > Is anybody else concerned by the fact that emails are in clear in the > > list archives (not to mention easily delineated by angle brackets)? > > > > I don't think it would take much for an enterprising hacker to compile > > all the emails from the list archives. > > Can we not feed the spammers easy targets, please? > > > > Regards, > > Scott Furry > > All mailing list archives are in plain text. Did you not read the > warnings when you singed up? >
IIRC, the warnings say that all the *messages* can be read in a public archive. Scott is talking about the email *addresses* on those messages in the archives. Many of the other lists that I subscribe to have the email addresses given as something like j...@xxxxxxxx in the archives. However, the OOo archives have them in plain text. I don't know about gmane and the others. To answer Scott's original question: It's not something that concerns me personally. My many email addresses are all over the internet, so having my address harvested from another list makes no difference. I get a zillion spam messages a day, almost all of which gmail filters out for me. --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
