On Aug 9, 2018, at 2:12 AM, Aslak Raanes <asl...@ntnu.no> wrote: > > On 9 Aug 2018, at 4:23, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Gmane’s About page, we find this: "Gmane is not an unproblematic >> project…Gmane makes it much easier for spam harvesters to gather these real, >> authentic mail addresses.” So, Gmane is part of the problems that >> originally motivated the creation of and move to Fossil forums! > > For the fossil-users mailing list Gmane via nntp only exposes mail addresses > as: > > Warren Young <warren-qkybwrijvgnbdgjk7y7...@public.gmane.org>
And here are the next two sentences on that same Gmane About page: “Even though the Gmane web interface to the news spool obfuscates all addresses, a spam harvesting bot just has to point itself to the news interface to slurp down the entire spool. And there's not much I can do to stop that from happening.” It stems from the fact that Gmane requires that you use a legitimate email address as a user name on their service. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
