On Jan 24, 2005, at 12:48, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Some folks on this list are *very* concerned with their email addresses appearing on a web-accessible archive (they don't want to give anything to the spammers). I share this concern, although I think that there are folks on this list who are more adamant about this than I am. I am more interested in making the collective wisdom of this list available for others to gain from. Still, any mail archive should have an email-address obfuscating feature, in order to satisfy this (reasonable) request.
This appears to be the main stumbling block. Mailman has an e-mail address obfuscation feature but it's very sad ('user at domain'). If I were writing a harvester I think I'd throw in the 1-line regex to fix these so it's not really a worthwhile countermeasure. I'm looking at what it would take to have Mailman just remove the e-mail address (display only the 'real name') or only show the user-part if there's no 'real name' provided so the offer is DOA unless I get that fixed.
Removing X-No-Archive messages should be a 10-line formail/procmail script, but if anyone has one done please send it along.
The trouble with the password-protected archives is that they don't add to the general knowledge-base of the 'net. There's alot of great content from lots of smart folks here and it's a shame not to share it.
I'm curious - is there anyone here who expects total privacy with the address they use to post here? If I were a spammer I'd subscribe to every list I could find via mailman,et.al. interfaces; we don't validate lurkers here, right? I'm not arguing for showing the addresses in the archive at all - just asking if there's a witness protection program expectation here, that is if having your 'real name' but not your e-mail address exposed to the Internet would cause a problem. I'm ignoring the mail-archive.com archive for the sake of the academic question.
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