Hi :) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:56:09PM +0000, Kouters, E.T.M. wrote: > We are computer science researchers from the Eindhoven University of > Technology. As part of an on-going academic study on how GNOME developers and > users use the mailing lists for communication, we are mining GNOME archives. cool!
> One of our observations pertains to inclusion of email headers in the > archive: > these headers often contain the IP address from which a message was sent; > [...] > > We are wondering how sensitive such information would be considered by you or > the GNOME community. Would this represent a privacy concern? I guess it would. > Has anyone raised the issue before? Not that I am aware of. > While list participants are surely aware that "all messages > sent to gnome.org<http://gnome.org> mailing lists will be archived" and they > "should not include any information in [their] postings that [they] would not > wish to become publicly available for the indefinite future" (as described on > the website), they might not aware that such a history of geo locations can > be > (easily) reconstructed. > True. We could probably strip all headers but the subject (and from) when generating the archives. Ideally, the software generating our archives, Mhonarc, provides that feature. cheers, Tobi _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
